The National Chairman of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC), Dr Abdullahi Umar Ganduje, has said that the New Nigeria Peoples Party (NNPP) is dead and would soon be buried.
He also said that the death of NNPP would bring back Senator Rabiu Musa Kwankwaso to the APC.
This is even as he boasted that the ongoing coalition moves by top opposition party leaders against President Bola Ahmed Tinubu ahead of the 2027 general elections will soon collapse.
Ganduje, who stated this while hosting leaders and members of the Tinubu Support Group (TSG) at the APC national secretariat in Abuja on Tuesday, said his leadership will welcome Kwankwaso and other opposition leaders back to the APC.
He said, “The NNPP is dead. And it will soon be buried very, very soon. I’m looking at where we will bury the body, the coffin has already been constructed. What remains now is to dig the grave. And already they are digging the grave very, very soon.
“Even like that, the so-called NNPP national leader, he too, he says after losing everyone, he wants to come back to us, we will welcome him, because he’s coming back home.”
Disclosing that his leadership has been receiving prominent politicians and lawmakers across the country into the APC in recent times, Ganduje revealed that Kwankwaso is returning to the ruling APC because of the dwindling fortunes of NNPP, a party he described as “practically dead.”
He charged all support groups of the party to be resolute and continue to give support to Tinubu-led administration, assuring them of inclusion in the party’s activities.
He also inaugurated a six-man reconciliation committee for each of the three Senatorial districts for the forthcoming Anambra governorship election.
He told all party faithful in the state that only a united house can guarantee victory in the November 8 Anambra governorship election.
He also charged the committee to work hard and bring everyone in Anambra APC onboard.