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<p>By Yusuf Danjuma Yunusa</p><div class="0s2b6BUk" style="clear:both;float:left;width:100%;margin:0 0 20px 0;"><script async src="https://pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/js/adsbygoogle.js"></script>

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<p>On Tuesday evening, the internet swirled with the report that the NNPP Chieftain, Rabiu Musa Kwankwaso, has endorsed the planned defection of governor Kabir Yusuf Abba.</p>
<p>The said report was first published by the Premium Times Newspaper.</p>
<p>In the quest to finding the authenticity of the report, the Nigerian Tracker News digged further and found out that the report was inaccurate.</p><div class="AeLWXnJD" style="clear:both;float:left;width:100%;margin:0 0 20px 0;"><script async src="https://pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/js/adsbygoogle.js"></script>

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<p>What is then Accurate?</p>
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<p>Findings show that the accurate report is that the former Kano State Governor, Rabiu Kwankwaso, has advised his supporters, who are being pressured to join a political movement in the All Progressives Congress (APC), to sign any document indicating their agreement to do so.</p>
<p>Mr Kwankwaso, leader of the New Nigeria People’s Party (NNPP), spoke in Hausa on Tuesday in Kano while addressing some of his supporters. He described the movement his supporters are being pressured to join as the Gandujiyya movement of former APC national chairman, Abdullahi Ganduje.</p>
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<p>Although Mr Kwakwanso repeatedly referred to the Gandujiyya movement, the statement is believed to refer to the pressure on many of his supporters to join the APC, alongside the state governor, Abba Yusuf.</p>
<p>Mr Kwankwaso stated that he was aware that some NNPP members holding elective or appointive offices in the state were being pressured. He said some of these officeholders were being asked to sign documents indicating that they agreed to defect to the Gandujiyya movement.</p>
<p>The former Kano governor urged such NNPP members to sign the documents so they do not suffer any victimisation by the state government.</p>
<p>“Several of our supporters who currently hold political appointments, as well as members of the State Assembly, have reached out to me in distress,” he said in Hausa, “Many of them have been unable to sleep at night; some have reportedly been hospitalised, receiving medical treatment, while others are showing signs of severe emotional strain”.</p>
<p>It was in the course of Premium Times Newspaper translating the Hausa language spoken in the video that it inaccurately reported that the former Kano governor has endorsed governor Abba&#8217;s planned defection.</p>
<p>Acknowledging its inaccurate report, the Premium Times Newspaper retract its first published story and apologized to its readers in that regard.</p>
<p>&#8220;Editor’s Note: We wrongly interpreted Mr Kwankwaso’s statement in Hausa to mean he was endorsing his supporters’ defection to the APC. That error, which is regretted, has been corrected in this copy,&#8221; Premium Times acknowledges.</p>
<p>Furthermore, the NNPP’s national spokesperson, Ladipo Johnson, issued a separate rebuttal, condemning the rumours as “a wicked and shameful falsehood” propagated by individuals “devoid of any scruples.”</p>
<p>Johnson accused those behind the reports of attempting to legitimise their exit by falsely claiming Kwankwaso’s backing.</p>
<p>“If you wish to leave, then leave. Do not insult the public by pretending you have Senator Kwankwaso’s support,” he stated.</p>
<p>He warned that members who abandon the party would be held accountable by voters in the 2027 elections.</p>
<p>The statement urged the public, party supporters, and the media to disregard the speculation and rely only on official and verified sources.</p>
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