By Ibrahim Hassan-Wuyo
The presidential candidate of the New Nigeria Peoples Party (NNPP) in the 2023 general election and leader of the Kwankwasiyya Movement, Senator Rabiu Musa Kwankwaso, has said that Kano State Governor, Abba Kabir Yusuf, and his political associates will eventually regret their decision to leave the party.
Kwankwaso made the assertion during an interview with the BBC Hausa Service, monitored by our correspondent in Kaduna on Wednesday, describing the governor’s defection as shocking and difficult to comprehend.
According to the former Kano State governor, the circumstances surrounding Yusuf’s exit from the NNPP appeared unreal and confusing, even to him.
“Many people have come to me saying they believe what happened was part of an arrangement—either between me and him or between me and those around him. Even I, on several occasions, find it hard to believe that events have unfolded the way they did,” Kwankwaso said.
He expressed confidence that time would reveal the consequences of the decision, insisting that Governor Yusuf and those who followed him would come to regret abandoning the NNPP.
Governor Abba Kabir Yusuf formally defected to the All Progressives Congress (APC) on Monday, January 26, 2026, after announcing his resignation from the NNPP on Friday, January 23.
The move came less than three years after Yusuf won the Kano State governorship election on the platform of the NNPP, a party closely associated with Kwankwaso and the Kwankwasiyya political movement.
The defection has continued to attract widespread reactions within and outside Kano State, given the long-standing political relationship between Kwankwaso and Yusuf, as well as the pivotal role played by the NNPP in the governor’s emergence.
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