The All Progressives Congress (APC) has stated that the 2023 presidential candidate of the New Nigeria’s People Party (NNPP), Rabiu Kwankwaso is welcome to join the party anytime he pleases, to work with Tinubu.

This statement was made by the party’s publicity secretary, Felix Morka, on Channels Television’s The Morning Show on Monday where he added that anyone in Nigeria can decide and is free to join the APC.

He said; “He is a citizen of the Federal Republic of Nigeria. Anyone who wishes to join APC may join APC, and this is not exclusive to Kwankwaso. As a matter of procedure, our doors are open; we welcome those who want to join our party, who want to work with us, who want to work with the president to achieve the objectives he’s set for his administration.

“Kwankwaso is an elite; he is one of Nigeria’s eminent citizens, and he is free as a political agent to make decisions for himself, to decide to join our party, to join any party or to remain in his party.

“If tomorrow, Kwankwaso decides to join APC, we will deal with that as we have responded to others who have made such requests, whether they are governors, members of the National Assembly or regular citizens. The process is the same. We celebrate those who come into our party, and we are hoping to grow even larger than we are already.”

Recall that, while Kwankwaso was still the governor of Kano, he defected to the APC from the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), in 2013.

The former governor gave reasons that he was interested in bringing democratic change to the country.

However, he defected back to the PDP, alongside 13 other APC senators, in 2018.

Then, in 2022 ahead of the 2023 general election, Kwankwaso joined NNPP contesting for the presidency and came fourth with 1.4 million votes.

Recently, speculations have been making round that the former Minister of Defence might go over to the APC following the resignation of the Party’s national chairman, Umar Ganduje, last Friday.

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