{"id":174891,"date":"2025-08-18T22:16:14","date_gmt":"2025-08-18T21:16:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/uncategorized\/reason-kwankwaso-cant-join-apc-buba-galadima"},"modified":"2025-08-18T23:20:51","modified_gmt":"2025-08-18T22:20:51","slug":"reason-kwankwaso-cant-join-apc-buba-galadima","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/reason-kwankwaso-cant-join-apc-buba-galadima","title":{"rendered":"Reason Kwankwaso can\u2019t join APC \u2013 Buba Galadima"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong>Africa-Press &#8211; Nigeria. <\/strong><\/span>A chieftain of the New Nigerian Peoples Party, NNPP, Buba Galadima, has explained why the former presidential candidate of his party will not join the government of the ruling All Progressives Congress, APC.<\/p>\n<p>Galadima accused the federal government of appointing two emirs in Kano, noting that there is a federal government emir and a state emir.<\/p>\n<p>The NNPP chieftain stated this on Monday while fielding questions on Channels TV\u2019s Politics Today programme.<\/p>\n<p>He said: \u201cWhy can\u2019t we Nigerians look at issues dispassionately? How can Kwankwaso be a friend of the APC with what they are doing to us in Kano?<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey appointed two emirs in one town. There is a federal government emir, and there is a state emir. Who has got the responsibility to appoint the emir and pay them their salary?<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe federal government have their emir. They have not less than 40 pickup trucks filled with mobile police guarding their own emir.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s a federal government appointee because it\u2019s the Federal High Court that has ruled halfway to suggest so. I\u2019m not making an accusation. I\u2019m making a statement.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>For More News And Analysis About <span style=\"color: #ff6600\">Nigeria<\/span> Follow <span style=\"color: #ff6600\">Africa-Press<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Africa-Press &#8211; Nigeria. A chieftain of the New Nigerian Peoples Party, NNPP, Buba Galadima, has explained why the former presidential candidate of his party will not join the government of the ruling All Progressives Congress, APC. Galadima accused the federal government of appointing two emirs in Kano, noting that there is a federal government emir [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":174890,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,14],"tags":[34,3544,2021,254],"class_list":["post-174891","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-policy","tag-apc","tag-buba-galadima","tag-kwankwaso","tag-nigeria"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.1 (Yoast SEO v27.0) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Reason Kwankwaso can\u2019t join APC \u2013 Buba Galadima - Nigeria<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"A chieftain of the New Nigerian Peoples Party, NNPP, Buba Galadima, has explained why the former presidential candidate ...\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/reason-kwankwaso-cant-join-apc-buba-galadima\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Reason Kwankwaso can\u2019t join APC \u2013 Buba Galadima\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"A chieftain of the New Nigerian Peoples Party, NNPP, Buba Galadima, has explained why the former presidential candidate ...\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/reason-kwankwaso-cant-join-apc-buba-galadima\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Nigeria\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2025-08-18T21:16:14+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2025-08-18T22:20:51+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sites\/3\/2025\/08\/sm_1755543206.718447.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"1200\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"779\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/reason-kwankwaso-cant-join-apc-buba-galadima#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/reason-kwankwaso-cant-join-apc-buba-galadima\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"cfeditoren\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb\"},\"headline\":\"Reason Kwankwaso can\u2019t join APC \u2013 Buba Galadima\",\"datePublished\":\"2025-08-18T21:16:14+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2025-08-18T22:20:51+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/reason-kwankwaso-cant-join-apc-buba-galadima\"},\"wordCount\":207,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/reason-kwankwaso-cant-join-apc-buba-galadima#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sites\/3\/2025\/08\/sm_1755543206.718447.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"APC\",\"Buba Galadima\",\"Kwankwaso\",\"Nigeria\"],\"articleSection\":[\"all news\",\"Policy\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/reason-kwankwaso-cant-join-apc-buba-galadima#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/reason-kwankwaso-cant-join-apc-buba-galadima\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/reason-kwankwaso-cant-join-apc-buba-galadima\",\"name\":\"Reason Kwankwaso can\u2019t join APC \u2013 Buba Galadima - 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