, Rabiu Musa Kwankwaso, on Saturday said his party will collapse ){kind=link}
The Presidential candidate of the New Nigeria People’s Party (NNPP), Rabiu Musa Kwankwaso, on Saturday said his party will collapse if he accepts to be the running mate to any presidential candidate.
Kwankwaso said this in Gombe State during the inauguration ceremony of the state office of NNPP. He also met with elected members of the party.
The former Kano state governor has been under pressure by young Nigerians who believe that merging with the Labour Party, LP, will give Peter Obi the required popularity in the north.
But he said that with the current fame of the NNPP, anything short of his presidency would mean the collapse of the party.
Kwankwaso also confirmed that his party had been in talks with the Labour Party for a possible merger, but the main problem that hindered progress was the issue of who would become the presidential candidate.
He said, “From the discussion with the Labour Party, the main issue was who becomes the president if the parties merge.
“At the end of the day, some of our representatives thought that there should be a criterion in terms of age, qualification, offices held, performance and so on.
“Of course, the other side would not want that. Most of the people from there believe that the president has to go there (South-east).
“If I now decide to be the vice-presidential candidate to anybody in this country; NNPP will collapse because the party is based on what we’ve built in the last thirty years.
“I served for seventeen years as a civil servant; we are talking of 47 years of very serious hard work that’s what is rarely holding NNPP now.”