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The National Chairman of the New Nigeria Peoples Party, Ajuji Ahmed, has said the party will retain Kano and win a minimum of three northern states in the 2027 general elections.
According to Ahmed, the defections of some members of the party, particularly members of the National Assembly, will not jeopardise the party’s chances in the coming election.
Ahmed’s statement came on the heels of the defections of two NNPP members of the House of Representatives, Abdulmumin Jibrin and Sagir Koki, to the APC.
Announcing their defection in separate letters read by the Speaker, Abbas Tajudeen, on Thursday, the lawmakers cited an irreconcilable crisis in the NNPP in Kano State as the reason for their switch.
The NNPP had on May 15, 2025, lost two members of the House of Representatives — Kabiru Usman and Abdullahi Sani, representing Rano/Bunkure/Kibiya and Karaye/Rogo Federal Constituencies respectively, both from Kano State — to the APC.
The party has also been losing members from both Kano and Jigawa states to the APC since around May this year.
However, the national chairman of the party said the NNPP and its leadership were not perturbed by the lawmakers’ defections, even as he wished them “good luck.”
Ahmed, in an interview with Sunday PUNCH, stated that the party had received many new members since the exit of the lawmakers.
He said, “I have just two words for them: ‘good luck.’ Their exit isn’t a minus to my party. It’s even probably better in the sense that a lot more people are flooding into the party, especially in Kano.
“I can assure you that despite their defection, the NNPP will retain Kano comfortably, and we are aiming at Jigawa, Kaduna, and a few other states if we are going alone. But if we are going in a coalition, we will win a lot more.”
“We won Taraba in the last election, but it was stolen from us, and that is an indication that we will have a lot more states in 2027.”
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