Presidential candidate of the New Nigeria People’s Party (NNPP) in the 2023 elections, Senator Rabiu Musa Kwankwaso, has agreed to return to the All Progressives Congress (APC) on strong terms.

The NNPP National leader wants “strong promises” from the ruling party and President Bola Tinubu.

The former Kano governor stated this while speaking to Hon. Buhari Bakwana, a former adviser on political affairs to Abdullahi Ganduje –the immediate past governor of the state.

Bakwana, a former APC member who had joined NNPP, alongside APC members from the 44 local government areas of Kano State, was with Kwankwaso at his Miller Road residence in Kano on Thursday.

The Nation gathered Bakwana is among those pressing on Sen. Kwankwaso to return to APC, on whose platform he won his second term election as governor of Kano state.

During the visit, Kwankwaso reminded his guests he and other key figures played a pivotal role in founding the APC in 2013.

Lamenting that he along other founders of the ruling APC have borne the brunt of political persecution in the process, Kwankwaso insisted that this time he must get “tangible benefits,” should he join the APC.

He, however, explained that the NNPP remained willing to engage in fresh negotiations, but warned that it would not accept to be used and dumped.

Kwankwaso said: “We are ready to join APC under strong conditions and promises. We will not allow anyone to use us and later dump us.

“Discussions about a merger or return to APC must spell out tangible benefits for my party (NNPP).”

“If you are asking us to join APC, you must tell us what NNPP will gain. We have gubernatorial candidates in all the states and full structures nationwide. What will you offer them, if we join?” he asked.

“Nobody in this country will tell me the burden we took to form APC. We were the ones who led the creation of the party, and we were the first set of seven governors to declare support for it. ICPC, EFCC, and the police were all used against us (me and them), just to stop our plans.”