{"id":76827,"date":"2022-11-22T10:03:58","date_gmt":"2022-11-22T09:03:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/uncategorized\/2023-hold-a-rally-in-kano-ganduje-challenges-kwankwaso"},"modified":"2022-11-22T12:15:16","modified_gmt":"2022-11-22T11:15:16","slug":"2023-hold-a-rally-in-kano-ganduje-challenges-kwankwaso","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/2023-hold-a-rally-in-kano-ganduje-challenges-kwankwaso","title":{"rendered":"2023: Hold a rally in Kano \u2013 Ganduje challenges Kwankwaso"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong>Africa-Press &#8211; Nigeria. <\/strong><\/span>Governor Abdullahi Ganduje of Kano State, on Monday, challenged the presidential candidate of the New Nigeria Peoples Party (NNPP), Senator Rabiu Kwankwaso to hold a rally in the State to test his popularity.<\/p>\n<p>Ganduje was speaking about the large turnout at the All Progressives Congress (APC) presidential rally for Bola Tinubu in the State earlier on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>According to the Governor, many of Kwankwaso\u2019s followers are now with the APC.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSo, if Kwankwaso thinks that he can win the party, let him hold a march like this and compare what will happen if he can do so,\u201d Ganduje said on Channels Television\u2019s Politics Today on Monday evening.<\/p>\n<p>Ganduje further questioned the political relevancy of Ibrahim Shekarau, who he noted was moving from one party to another and losing a large number of his followers in the process.<\/p>\n<p>The Governor believes that Shekarau has left a majority of his followers in the All Progressives Congress, the NNPP and suggested that no one knows the former Governor\u2019s next moves.<\/p>\n<p><strong>For More News And Analysis About <a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\">Nigeria<\/a> Follow <a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/\">Africa-Press<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Africa-Press &#8211; Nigeria. Governor Abdullahi Ganduje of Kano State, on Monday, challenged the presidential candidate of the New Nigeria Peoples Party (NNPP), Senator Rabiu Kwankwaso to hold a rally in the State to test his popularity. Ganduje was speaking about the large turnout at the All Progressives Congress (APC) presidential rally for Bola Tinubu in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":76826,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,14],"tags":[1571,1570,2140,1022,2021,254],"class_list":["post-76827","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-policy","tag-1571","tag-africa-press","tag-africa-press-nigeria-2","tag-ganduje","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>2023: Hold a rally in Kano \u2013 Ganduje challenges Kwankwaso - Nigeria<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Governor Abdullahi Ganduje of Kano State, on Monday, challenged the presidential candidate of the New Nigeria Peoples Pa ...\" \/>\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\/2023-hold-a-rally-in-kano-ganduje-challenges-kwankwaso\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"2023: Hold a rally in Kano \u2013 Ganduje challenges Kwankwaso\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Governor Abdullahi Ganduje of Kano State, on Monday, challenged the presidential candidate of the New Nigeria Peoples Pa ...\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/2023-hold-a-rally-in-kano-ganduje-challenges-kwankwaso\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Nigeria\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2022-11-22T09:03:58+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2022-11-22T11:15:16+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sites\/3\/2022\/11\/postQueueImg_1669102327.01.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\/policy\/2023-hold-a-rally-in-kano-ganduje-challenges-kwankwaso#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/2023-hold-a-rally-in-kano-ganduje-challenges-kwankwaso\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"cfeditoren\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb\"},\"headline\":\"2023: Hold a rally in Kano \u2013 Ganduje challenges Kwankwaso\",\"datePublished\":\"2022-11-22T09:03:58+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2022-11-22T11:15:16+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/2023-hold-a-rally-in-kano-ganduje-challenges-kwankwaso\"},\"wordCount\":190,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/2023-hold-a-rally-in-kano-ganduje-challenges-kwankwaso#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sites\/3\/2022\/11\/postQueueImg_1669102327.01.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"2023\",\"Africa Press\",\"Africa Press-Nigeria\",\"Ganduje\",\"Kwankwaso\",\"Nigeria\"],\"articleSection\":[\"all news\",\"Policy\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/2023-hold-a-rally-in-kano-ganduje-challenges-kwankwaso#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/2023-hold-a-rally-in-kano-ganduje-challenges-kwankwaso\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/2023-hold-a-rally-in-kano-ganduje-challenges-kwankwaso\",\"name\":\"2023: Hold a rally in Kano \u2013 Ganduje challenges Kwankwaso - 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