{"id":21690,"date":"2024-12-30T14:37:33","date_gmt":"2024-12-30T14:37:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/?p=21690"},"modified":"2024-12-30T14:38:52","modified_gmt":"2024-12-30T14:38:52","slug":"kwankwaso-denies-power-sharing-deal-with-atiku-obi-ahead-of-2027-presidential-election","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/?p=21690","title":{"rendered":"Kwankwaso Denies Power-Sharing Deal with Atiku, Obi Ahead of 2027 Presidential Election"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Rabiu Kwankwaso, former governor of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thecable.ng\/tag\/kano-state\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Kano state<\/a>, says he has not reached any agreement with former Vice-President Atiku Abubakar, and Peter Obi, ex-governor of Anambra state, for the 2027 presidential election.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Speaking in an <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/hausa\/articles\/cwyp22xlwwdo\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">interview with BBC Hausa<\/a><\/strong>, Kwankwaso said there was no deal for him to serve a four-year term as president, followed by a single term for Abubakar, and two terms for Obi.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Kwankwaso alleged that a faction loyal to Abubakar has been meeting with northern elders and clerics to spread false claims about a \u201cnon-existent\u201d power-sharing arrangement.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Kwankwaso accused Abubakar\u2019s faction of allegedly spreading falsehood about those who had left the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP).<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI was told that about forty-five scholars were gathered and told this statement that did not exist. I am not happy with this at all,\u201d Kwankwaso said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey were told that I agreed that Atiku would serve for four years, I will also serve for four years, and Peter Obi for eight years. This statement does not exist, it was not made.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt was these kinds of lies and deceit that made us leave, Peter Obi, Wike, and I \u2014 we all left. Now they are here and continuing to do it, and we, who were humiliated and expelled, are now being asked to come and put those who humiliated us in the forefront so that we can achieve success.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Kwankwaso, Abubakar, and Obi ran in the 2023 presidential election under different parties\u2014the New Nigeria Peoples Party (NNPP), Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), and Labour Party (LP), respectively.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">The trio lost the election to Bola Tinubu, then presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC).<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Since then, there have been rumours suggesting the trio might form an alliance to challenge Tinubu in 2027, a claim Kwankwaso has now denied.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rabiu Kwankwaso, former governor of Kano state, says he has not reached any agreement with former Vice-President Atiku Abubakar, and Peter Obi, ex-governor of Anambra state, for the 2027 presidential election.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":21691,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[9917,125,1405,9366,9916],"class_list":["post-21690","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics","tag-2027-presidential-election","tag-atiku","tag-kwankwaso","tag-obi","tag-power-sharing-deal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21690"}],"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=21690"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21690\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21694,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21690\/revisions\/21694"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/21691"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21690"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21690"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21690"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}