Senator Ibrahim Shekarau, representing Kano Central Senatorial District, has advised his supporters to exercise patience and await his final decision on whether they will remain or quit NNPP.
Shekarau gave the advice on Monday, August 22, in Kano, while addressing his Advisory Council from the 44 local government areas of the state.
He alleged that his supporters were marginalised in the NNPP, contrary to the existing agreement.
The ex-Kano State governor said;
We reached an agreement with NNPP to accommodate my supporters in various elective positions in the party.
However, the party has failed to accommodate a single person apart from the senatorial slot given to me.
He further said that the party did not consult him over the fate of his supporters seeking elective positions on the party’s platform.
Attempts made to get the reaction of the party’s Chairman, Alhaji Umar Doguwa, on the issue were unsuccessful.
It would be recalled that the lawmaker defected to the NNPP in May, 2022, after he complained of being sidelined in the All Progressives Congress.
Meanwhile, the Labour Party’s (LP) Peter Obi and the Igbo presidency have been rejected by the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB).
IPOB stated that it had no interest in an Igbo or a Southeast-derived Nigerian president.
The group said that because they are interested in Nigeria’s division, none of its members are among Obi’s followers.
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The Igbo people rallying behind Peter Obi are not IPOB members because IPOB’s goal is the disintegration of the Nigerian enterprise irrespective of whether Peter Obi or anyone else from the Biafran geographic space is contesting in the Nigerian farce of an election.
IPOB is a freedom fighting movement and has nothing whatsoever to do with or in Nigerian politics. So long as we in IPOB are concerned, Nigeria is irredeemable.
IPOB also reiterated its call for the release of its leader, Nnamdi Kanu, and a referendum in the Southeast.
