The former senator had left ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) in the run up to the 2019 general election to realise his presidential ambition in PDP. But he failed.
Former governor of Kano State, Rabiu Kwankwaso, says he has concluded plans to formally declare his intention to run for the office of President in 2023 next week.
Mr Kwakwanso will be running on the platform of New Nigerian Peoples Party (NNPP), a relatively unknown party he recently defected to from opposition Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) alongside his supporters.
The former senator had left ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) in the run up to the 2019 general election to realise his presidential ambition in PDP. But he failed.
“I have been consulting widely with friends and Nigerians of diverse interests and the outcome has been positive,” Mr Kwakwanso told a news conference in Abuja on Friday. “I will be informing Nigerians of my political ambition sometime early next week.”
The former governor said that support for the NNPP had been overwhelming going by the responses recorded at its recently-concluded membership registration drive.
The presidential aspirant decried the current insecurity in the country.
He said as a former Minister of Defence, he never thought insecurity would worsen to the present level.
Mr Kwankwaso said the country’s…
