{"id":193281,"date":"2026-02-02T12:43:41","date_gmt":"2026-02-02T11:43:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/uncategorized\/2027-our-doors-still-open-for-kwankwaso-apc"},"modified":"2026-02-02T13:48:55","modified_gmt":"2026-02-02T12:48:55","slug":"2027-our-doors-still-open-for-kwankwaso-apc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/parties\/2027-our-doors-still-open-for-kwankwaso-apc","title":{"rendered":"2027: Our doors still open for Kwankwaso \u2013 APC"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong>Africa-Press &#8211; Nigeria. <\/strong><\/span>The ruling All Progressives Congress, APC, says its doors are still open for the former presidential candidate of the New Nigerian Peoples Party, NNPP, Rabi\u2019u Kwankwaso.<\/p>\n<p>The National Chairman of the party, Prof Nentawe Yilwatda, said this on Sunday in an interview on Trust TV.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOur doors are still open for Kwankwaso to join the APC. If he comes, he\u2019s mostly welcome. Though we are not yet in negotiation with him yet,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Recall that the only NNPP governor, Abba Yusuf of Kano State, last Friday, officially defected to the APC, alongside members of the State House of Assembly.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, Kwankwaso has expressed shock over Yusuf\u2019s defection, a man who he helped become governor of the state in 2023.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFrankly, it came as a big shock, not just to me, but to many Nigerians. To be honest, even now, it still feels unreal. Sometimes I lie down and feel like it was all a dream. The way the whole thing happened left many people confused,\u201d Kwankwaso had said.<\/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. The ruling All Progressives Congress, APC, says its doors are still open for the former presidential candidate of the New Nigerian Peoples Party, NNPP, Rabi\u2019u Kwankwaso. The National Chairman of the party, Prof Nentawe Yilwatda, said this on Sunday in an interview on Trust TV. \u201cOur doors are still open for Kwankwaso [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":193280,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,29,28,16,2660],"tags":[254],"class_list":["post-193281","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-head-lines","category-homepage-english","category-parties","category-to-homepage","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>2027: Our doors still open for Kwankwaso \u2013 APC - Nigeria<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"The ruling All Progressives Congress, APC, says its doors are still open for the former presidential candidate of the Ne ...\" \/>\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\/parties\/2027-our-doors-still-open-for-kwankwaso-apc\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"2027: Our doors still open for Kwankwaso \u2013 APC\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"The ruling All Progressives Congress, APC, says its doors are still open for the former presidential candidate of the Ne ...\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/parties\/2027-our-doors-still-open-for-kwankwaso-apc\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Nigeria\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2026-02-02T11:43:41+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2026-02-02T12:48:55+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sites\/3\/2026\/02\/sm_1770036488.483478.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"1200\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"796\" \/>\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\/parties\/2027-our-doors-still-open-for-kwankwaso-apc#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/parties\/2027-our-doors-still-open-for-kwankwaso-apc\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"cfeditoren\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb\"},\"headline\":\"2027: Our doors still open for Kwankwaso \u2013 APC\",\"datePublished\":\"2026-02-02T11:43:41+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2026-02-02T12:48:55+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/parties\/2027-our-doors-still-open-for-kwankwaso-apc\"},\"wordCount\":190,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/parties\/2027-our-doors-still-open-for-kwankwaso-apc#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sites\/3\/2026\/02\/sm_1770036488.483478.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"Nigeria\"],\"articleSection\":[\"all news\",\"head lines\",\"homepage-english\",\"Parties\",\"to-homepage\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/parties\/2027-our-doors-still-open-for-kwankwaso-apc#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/parties\/2027-our-doors-still-open-for-kwankwaso-apc\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/parties\/2027-our-doors-still-open-for-kwankwaso-apc\",\"name\":\"2027: Our doors still open for Kwankwaso \u2013 APC - 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