{"id":46330,"date":"2021-07-07T17:02:13","date_gmt":"2021-07-07T16:02:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/uncategorized\/kwankwaso-speaks-on-dumping-pdp-for-apc"},"modified":"2021-07-07T17:11:57","modified_gmt":"2021-07-07T16:11:57","slug":"kwankwaso-speaks-on-dumping-pdp-for-apc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/parties\/kwankwaso-speaks-on-dumping-pdp-for-apc","title":{"rendered":"Kwankwaso speaks on dumping PDP for APC"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/\">Africa-Press<\/a> &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\">Nigeria<\/a>. <\/strong><\/span>Former Governor of Kano State, Senator Rabiu Musa Kwankwaso has reacted to reports that he is planning to dump the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, for the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC).<\/p>\n<p>A media aide to Kwankwaso, Saifullahi Hassan, told DailyTrust that the report making the rounds that Kwankwaso plans to return to the APC was false.<\/p>\n<p>The leader of the Kwankwasiyya Movement also confirmed that he is not planning to float a new political party to challenge PDP and APC for presidency in 2023.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, the Kano State Commissioner for Rural Development, Musa Iliyasu Kwankwaso, said Kwankwaso will be welcomed back to the APC if he is ready to submit to the leadership of Governor Abdullahi Umar Ganduje.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf Kwankwaso wants to come to APC, let him withdraw his red cap to come under Ganduje,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Africa-Press &#8211; Nigeria. Former Governor of Kano State, Senator Rabiu Musa Kwankwaso has reacted to reports that he is planning to dump the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, for the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC). A media aide to Kwankwaso, Saifullahi Hassan, told DailyTrust that the report making the rounds that Kwankwaso plans to return to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":46329,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,28,16,26],"tags":[1570,2140,34,2021,254,65],"class_list":["post-46330","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-homepage-english","category-parties","category-twitter","tag-africa-press","tag-africa-press-nigeria-2","tag-apc","tag-kwankwaso","tag-nigeria","tag-pdp"],"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>Kwankwaso speaks on dumping PDP for APC - Nigeria<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Former Governor of Kano State, Senator Rabiu Musa Kwankwaso has reacted to reports that he is planning to dump the Peopl ...\" \/>\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\/kwankwaso-speaks-on-dumping-pdp-for-apc\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Kwankwaso speaks on dumping PDP for APC\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Former Governor of Kano State, Senator Rabiu Musa Kwankwaso has reacted to reports that he is planning to dump the Peopl ...\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/parties\/kwankwaso-speaks-on-dumping-pdp-for-apc\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Nigeria\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2021-07-07T16:02:13+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2021-07-07T16:11:57+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sites\/3\/2021\/07\/img-60e5d1f1594c4.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"1280\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"720\" \/>\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\/kwankwaso-speaks-on-dumping-pdp-for-apc#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/parties\/kwankwaso-speaks-on-dumping-pdp-for-apc\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"cfeditoren\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb\"},\"headline\":\"Kwankwaso speaks on dumping PDP for APC\",\"datePublished\":\"2021-07-07T16:02:13+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2021-07-07T16:11:57+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/parties\/kwankwaso-speaks-on-dumping-pdp-for-apc\"},\"wordCount\":146,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/parties\/kwankwaso-speaks-on-dumping-pdp-for-apc#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sites\/3\/2021\/07\/img-60e5d1f1594c4.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"Africa Press\",\"Africa Press-Nigeria\",\"APC\",\"Kwankwaso\",\"Nigeria\",\"PDP\"],\"articleSection\":[\"all news\",\"homepage-english\",\"Parties\",\"twitter\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/parties\/kwankwaso-speaks-on-dumping-pdp-for-apc#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/parties\/kwankwaso-speaks-on-dumping-pdp-for-apc\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/parties\/kwankwaso-speaks-on-dumping-pdp-for-apc\",\"name\":\"Kwankwaso speaks on dumping PDP for APC - 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