{"id":83289,"date":"2021-07-07T10:53:29","date_gmt":"2021-07-07T09:53:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/?p=83289"},"modified":"2021-07-07T10:53:29","modified_gmt":"2021-07-07T09:53:29","slug":"kwankwaso-speaks-on-dumping-pdp-for-apc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/exclusive\/kwankwaso-speaks-on-dumping-pdp-for-apc\/","title":{"rendered":"Kwankwaso speaks on dumping PDP for APC"},"content":{"rendered":"<div dir=\"auto\">Former Governor of Kano State, Senator Rabiu Musa Kwankwaso has reacted to reports that he is planning to dump the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, for the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC).<\/p>\n<div dir=\"auto\">\nA media aide to Kwankwaso, Saifullahi Hassan who spoke to the media said the report making the rounds that Kwankwaso plans to return to the APC was false.<\/p>\n<p>The leader of the Kwankwasiyya Movement also confirmed that he is not planning to float a new political party to challenge PDP and APC for presidency in 2023.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, the Kano State Commissioner for Rural Development, Musa Iliyasu Kwankwaso, said Kwankwaso will be welcomed back to the APC if he is ready to submit to the leadership of Governor Abdullahi Umar Ganduje.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf Kwankwaso wants to come to APC, let him withdraw his red cap to come under Ganduje,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<div class=\"yj6qo\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"adL\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Related Posts generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former Governor of Kano State, Senator Rabiu Musa Kwankwaso has reacted to reports that he is planning to dump the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, for the ruling All Progressives Congress&hellip;<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Related Posts generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":83290,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-83289","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-exclusive"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.8 - 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