Governor Nasir El-Rufai sacked 313 district heads and 4,453 village heads in June 2017 and restructured traditional chiefdoms in the state.
“As long as he wants votes from the North, that’s the situation fortunately or unfortunately today,” Mr Kwankwaso pointed out.
“When you look at the equity contribution of votes, it would be a ratio of about 70 to 30 per cent,” Mr Jibrin, a chieftain of the NNPP, explained.
An ongoing talks between the two parties could end in a stalemate over who should be the main face of a potential merger.
It comes as Rabiu Kwankwaso and other NNPP leaders said talks have intensified to form an alliance with Peter Obi of the Labour Party ahead of the 2023 presidential elections.
Founder of the New Nigeria Peoples Party (NNPP), Boniface Aniebonam, said his party’s presidential candidate was a leader “with honour and integrity, courageous…”
Mr Kwankwaso has attracted Ibrahim Shekarau and other Kano bigwigs to the party, driving claims he might positioning the party as the country’s viable third force next year.
“We hereby make a declaration that Sen. Kwankwaso is a messenger of God to reunite Nigerians.”
Mr Jibrin is running to go back to the House of Representatives after losing his bid in 2019. The governor Abdullahi Ganduje led Kano APC is however said to be against his ambition.
“We, the New Nigeria Peoples Party members, shall liberate every Nigerian to enable us to live in peace as brothers and sisters. Yes, we shall do that in God’s name.”
