Kwankwaso’s ‘Dead’ Comment Sparks PDP Outrage

Kwankwaso’s ‘Dead’ Comment Sparks PDP Outrage

The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has berated former Kano state governor, Rabiu Musa Kwankwaso for his claim that the party is “dead” in Nigeria.

The PDP described Kwankwaso’s statement as a display of selfishness, inflated ego, and an exaggerated sense of self-importance.

In response to media inquiries via WhatsApp from Abuja, PDP National Publicity Secretary Mr. Debo Ologunagba accused Kwankwaso, who was the 2023 presidential candidate for the New Nigeria Peoples Party (NNPP), of lacking true leadership qualities.

Ologunagba emphasized that Kwankwaso’s only notable national recognition came during his time with the PDP.

On Saturday, during the inauguration of NNPP’s renovated party office in Katsina State, Kwankwaso had said that he and his followers left the PDP because “it is dead.”

He told his supporters: “I wish to remind you that PDP is dead because we left the party. Since they have gone out of the line, we decided to check out,” adding that the NNPP is now set to take over many other states and that he is set to become President in 2027.

However, in an angry reaction on Sunday, the PDP spokesman said that his party does not have a strong need to join issues with Kwankwaso who is now a victim of his illusion.

Ologunagba said: “Our reaction to the statement credited to Senator Rabiu Kwankwaso is that he is very inconsequential in the Nigerian national politics today judging from the fact that he is struggling to lead a Party called NNPP which is also struggling to control only one State.

“It is unfathomable to imagine that a failed and inconsequential politician with only one State would claim that a Party that has thirteen governors, many Senators, many members of the House of Representatives, control of several states’ House of Assembly and strong presence in all the local government areas and wards across the country is dead.

“More disturbing is that Sen. Kwankwaso has exhibited extreme selfishness and self-centeredness which shows that he is not a leader.

“Unfortunately, he is up to this at this time when the PDP and patriotic Nigerians are speaking out against the excruciating hardship in the country occasioned by the anti-people policies of the APC administration; at this time Nigerians including in Sen. Kwankwaso’s home State, Kano are dying of hunger and starvation.

“At a time when over 150 million Nigerians have sunk deeper into poverty; when millions of Nigerians are daily losing their means of livelihood.

“At a time when the Naira has fallen to over N1,600 to a Dollar with over 34% inflation rate; in the wake of APC’s brutal increase in the price of petrol to over N1,200 in various parts of the country, the only thing that occupies Senator Kwankwaso’s mind is his self-centered pipe dream of becoming President.

“It is very unfortunate. So, the PDP does not intend to join issues with him on such a display of self-centeredness and insensitivity.

“In any event, whatever political relevance Senator Kwankwaso believes he has achieved, he did so only when he was in the PDP,” Ologunagba stated on Sunday.