{"id":194836,"date":"2026-02-14T00:05:54","date_gmt":"2026-02-13T23:05:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/uncategorized\/us-bill-indicting-only-kwankwaso-is-suspicious-ndume"},"modified":"2026-02-14T01:13:18","modified_gmt":"2026-02-14T00:13:18","slug":"us-bill-indicting-only-kwankwaso-is-suspicious-ndume","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/us-bill-indicting-only-kwankwaso-is-suspicious-ndume","title":{"rendered":"US bill: Indicting only Kwankwaso is suspicious \u2013 Ndume"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong>Africa-Press &#8211; Nigeria. <\/strong><\/span>Borno South Senator Ali Ndume has said for the US lawmakers to indict former New Nigerian Peoples Party, NNPP, presidential candidate, Rabi\u2019u Kwankwaso as fundamentalist means something may be fishy somewhere.<\/p>\n<p>Ndume said this on Friday while fielding questions in an interview on \u2018Politics Today\u2019, a programme on Channels Television.<\/p>\n<p>He expressed shock that Kwankwaso\u2019s name was mentioned, stressing that he wants to know how the former Kano state governor got implicated or mentioned.<\/p>\n<p>United States lawmakers initiated a new bill aimed at increasing accountability for human rights abuses in Nigeria.<\/p>\n<p>The legislation, Nigeria Religious Freedom and Accountability Act of 2026, contains provision for potential sanctions against Fulani militias and former Kano State Governor, Rabiu Kwankwaso.<\/p>\n<p>Reacting, Ndume said, \u201cWhat I\u2019m sure is that this is a bill introduced that has gone through both first reading in both the Senate and the House. I\u2019ve been trying to get my hands on the copy of the bill and what it contains but it\u2019s not yet in the public domain, but it is only when I get the details that I can react.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn the summary, I know that the bill is recommending sanctions and even visa ban and confiscation of assets and all that.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFor them to mention Kwankwaso, I think something may be fishy somewhere Nothing to worry about, if somebody is actually clean.\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. Borno South Senator Ali Ndume has said for the US lawmakers to indict former New Nigerian Peoples Party, NNPP, presidential candidate, Rabi\u2019u Kwankwaso as fundamentalist means something may be fishy somewhere. Ndume said this on Friday while fielding questions in an interview on \u2018Politics Today\u2019, a programme on Channels Television. He expressed [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":194835,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,14],"tags":[254],"class_list":["post-194836","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-policy","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>US bill: Indicting only Kwankwaso is suspicious \u2013 Ndume - Nigeria<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Borno South Senator Ali Ndume has said for the US lawmakers to indict former New Nigerian Peoples Party, NNPP, president ...\" \/>\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\/us-bill-indicting-only-kwankwaso-is-suspicious-ndume\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"US bill: Indicting only Kwankwaso is suspicious \u2013 Ndume\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Borno South Senator Ali Ndume has said for the US lawmakers to indict former New Nigerian Peoples Party, NNPP, president ...\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/us-bill-indicting-only-kwankwaso-is-suspicious-ndume\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Nigeria\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2026-02-13T23:05:54+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2026-02-14T00:13:18+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sites\/3\/2026\/02\/sm_1771027942.895628.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"720\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"457\" \/>\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=\"2 minutes\" \/>\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\/us-bill-indicting-only-kwankwaso-is-suspicious-ndume#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/us-bill-indicting-only-kwankwaso-is-suspicious-ndume\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"cfeditoren\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb\"},\"headline\":\"US bill: Indicting only Kwankwaso is suspicious \u2013 Ndume\",\"datePublished\":\"2026-02-13T23:05:54+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2026-02-14T00:13:18+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/us-bill-indicting-only-kwankwaso-is-suspicious-ndume\"},\"wordCount\":248,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/us-bill-indicting-only-kwankwaso-is-suspicious-ndume#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sites\/3\/2026\/02\/sm_1771027942.895628.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"Nigeria\"],\"articleSection\":[\"all news\",\"Policy\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/us-bill-indicting-only-kwankwaso-is-suspicious-ndume#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/us-bill-indicting-only-kwankwaso-is-suspicious-ndume\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/us-bill-indicting-only-kwankwaso-is-suspicious-ndume\",\"name\":\"US bill: Indicting only Kwankwaso is suspicious \u2013 Ndume - 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