{"id":21601,"date":"2024-12-27T15:26:09","date_gmt":"2024-12-27T15:26:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/?p=21601"},"modified":"2024-12-27T15:30:03","modified_gmt":"2024-12-27T15:30:03","slug":"apc-fires-back-at-kwankwaso-stop-daydreaming-youre-politically-homeless","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/?p=21601","title":{"rendered":"APC Fires Back at Kwankwaso: \u201cStop Daydreaming, You\u2019re Politically Homeless\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Kano State chapter of the All Progressives Congress (APC) has dismissed Senator <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Rabiu_Kwankwaso\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Rabiu Kwankwaso<\/a>\u2019s claim that he will significantly cut APC\u2019s votes in the state during the 2027 elections, labeling it as \u201cwishful thinking.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In a statement on Thursday, APC state chairman <a href=\"https:\/\/dailytrust.com\/tag\/abdullahi-abbas\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Abdullahi Abbas<\/a> described Kwankwaso as a \u201cpolitical refugee\u201d clinging to Governor Abba Yusuf to remain relevant after reportedly being ousted from the New Nigeria Peoples Party (NNPP).<\/p>\n<p>\u201cKwankwaso should stop daydreaming and face reality. His overblown confidence in reducing <a href=\"https:\/\/apc.com.ng\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">APC<\/a>\u2019s votes in Kano is laughable. Our party remains the people\u2019s choice,\u201d Abbas stated.<\/p>\n<p>He accused Kwankwaso of benefiting from manipulated votes in the 2023 elections, warning that such tactics would not succeed in 2027. \u201cKwankwaso has been rejected by the <a href=\"https:\/\/nnpp.net.ng\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">NNPP<\/a> due to his self-centeredness and is now wandering aimlessly in the political landscape,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p>Abbas assured Kano residents that the APC is focused on reclaiming the state, liberating it from what he called Kwankwaso\u2019s undue influence. He criticized Kwankwaso\u2019s tenure and accused him of using his \u201ccastle on Miller Road\u201d to manipulate politics in the state.<\/p>\n<p>This response comes after Kwankwaso vowed to reduce APC\u2019s votes to less than 15,000 in the next elections during a meeting with stakeholders from Tsanyawa Local Government Area. Kwankwaso claimed his team\u2019s efforts in 2023 sidelined the PDP and attracted defectors from the APC.<\/p>\n<p>The political rivalry between APC and Kwankwaso\u2019s camp continues to intensify as both sides gear up for the 2027 elections.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Kano State chapter of the All Progressives Congress (APC) has dismissed Senator Rabiu Kwankwaso\u2019s claim that he will significantly cut APC\u2019s votes in the state during the 2027 elections, labeling it as \u201cwishful thinking.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":21602,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[111,9853,9852,1405,9854],"class_list":["post-21601","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics","tag-apc","tag-daydreaming","tag-fires-back","tag-kwankwaso","tag-politically-homeless"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21601"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=21601"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21601\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21607,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21601\/revisions\/21607"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/21602"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21601"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21601"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21601"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}