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  Group claims Kwankwaso disrespects and misrepresents the North. Dr Rabiu Musa Kwankwaso A group, the Arewa Youths Progressive Alliance, has distanced itself from a remark attributed to Rabiu Kwankwaso, the presidential candidate of the New Nigerian Peoples Party, that electors from the North will only support politicians from the region. Alhaji Sambo Galadima, the group's spokesman, pointed out that "the North is neither anti-progress nor xenophobic toward other Nigerians." In a statement issued on Thursday in Kaduna, Galadima claimed that the former governor of Kano State's portrayal of the region was not only insulting to the area but also inaccurate of the genuine nature of the average northern voter. The NNPP presidential candidate Kwankwaso claimed on Channels TV that the North was retrogressive, but the NNPP spokesman pointed out flaws in that claim. Dr. Rabiu Musa Kwankwaso's statements paint the North as backwards and the typical northern voter as callou...

  Presidential poll: Obi, Kwankwaso’s negotiations dead, says Okupe Kwakwaso And Peter Obi The planned coalition between the Labour Party and the New Nigerian People's Party for the 2023 general election has been declared "dead," according to Dr. Doyin Okupe, Director-General of the Obi Presidential Campaign Organization. The proposal, according to Okupe, who serves as Peter Obi's de facto running partner for the LP presidential nomination and former governor of Anambra State, has been dead for almost four weeks. The LP had intended to form a coalition with the NNPP, with Senator Rabiu Kwankwaso, the latter party's presidential candidate, running on the same platform as Obi. On Tuesday night, Okupe revealed during an appearance on Channels Television's Politics Today that the negotiation stalled when the LP side questioned the election of a second Muslim northerner succeeding the president, Major General Muhammadu Buhari (retd). Senator Ditti Baba-Ahmed is re...