Former Governor of Kano State, Senator Rabiu Musa Kwankwaso, has said that he is considering contesting the 2023 Presidential Election on the platform of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP).
This was as he dismissed insinuations that he was considering defecting from the PDP to the All Progressives Congress (APC).
Kwankwanso, who made his intention known while featuring on Sunday Politics, a current affairs programme on Channels television, dismissed the dicey issue of power rotation between the North and the South as well as religious considerations for the president and the vice-president.
He further said; “Right at the moment, I am making all the necessary consultations and contacts. We have friends all over the country. We are talking to each other and I believe that we are almost there because this is 2022 and the election itself is coming in the the first quarter of 2023.
“I think it is a matter of a little bit of patience. I think in the next couple of months everything will be clear and will even invite you to come and hear our position on the issue of the contest. We don’t just go into the field.”
Commenting on the North retaining power after President Muhammadu Buhari’s tenure, Kwankwaso said that many people are mixing what ordinarily shouldn’t come together at all.
In his words; “We have PDP, we have APC, we have APGA and we have many other parties today in this country. The issue of where a party puts its presidency or vice-presidency is a matter of strategy. I have always supported presidential candidates from the South since the defunct Third Republic”.
