Rabiu Kwankwaso the presidential candidate for the New Nigeria People’s Party (NNPP), has said he will not be accepting offers from anyone to become vice president to any candidate.
Kwankwaso stated this on Saturday, in Gombe State during the inauguration of the state office of NNPP and meeting with the newly elected members of the party.
Kwankwaso said accepting to be the running mate to any presidential candidate would lead to the collapse of NNPP.
According to Kwankwaso, the NNPP had been in talks with the Labour Party, but could not reach a common ground as the two parties were stuck with the decision of who will become president if the merger is successful, seeing that neither Kwankwaso or Peter Obi will be willing to become running mates.
The former Governor of Kano State said with the fame the NNPP had achieved within the short time, anything short of his presidency would mean the collapse of the NNPP.
He said, “From the discussion with the Labour Party, the main issue was who becomes the president if the parties merge.
“At the end of the day, some of our representatives thought that there should be a criterion in terms of age, qualification, offices held, performance and so on.
“Of course, the other side would not want that. Most of the people from there believe that the president has to go there (South-east).
“If I now decide to be the vice-presidential candidate to anybody in this country; NNPP will collapse because the party is based on what we’ve built in the last thirty years.
“I served for seventeen years as a civil servant; we are talking of 47 years of very serious hard work that’s what is rarely holding NNPP now.”
