Engr. Buba Galadima, a prominent member of the New Nigeria People’s Party (NNPP), has criticized Dr. Abdullahi Umar Ganduje, the national chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC), as having no political worth and owing his current position exclusively to President Bola Tinubu.
Galadima made the comments in response to rumors that Dr. Rabiu Musa Kwankwaso, the NNPP’s 2023 presidential contender, was preparing to rejoin the APC.
In an interview with the Guardian, he charged Ganduje with exploiting Kwankwaso’s name and the NNPP to stay in the public eye.
“I am hearing this from you. So, if we are going to APC, Nigerians will hear this from Ganduje? Even because of him, nobody would like to go to APC,” Galadima told The Guardian.
“It is only Tinubu who can make a Ganduje chairman of a party,” he added, further criticizing the national chairman of the APC. How is Ganduje able to chair anything?
Galadima said that by disseminating lies about the NNPP and its members, the APC leadership is bewildered and finding it difficult to remain relevant.
“They are the people who are keeping us in the press because they are confused. Everything is going asunder across the country,” he said.
“These are the same people that use social media and propaganda to denigrate us in NNPP. If they are not claiming that Kwankwaso is working for President Tinubu, they will gossip that Kwankwaso is going to France to lobby Mr. President.”
“There is nothing like that,” he said, categorically rejecting any discussions or plans for Kwankwaso or the NNPP to rejoin the APC. In actuality, I can tell you.
Galadima also made fun of the APC’s fixation on the 2027 elections, saying that only those politicians who have let their constituents down turn to politics in the middle of their terms.
“Only political failures talk about the next election in the middle of their terms,” he noted, insisting that the NNPP remains focused on delivering responsible and responsive governance.
His words followed Ganduje’s previous statements at the APC national secretariat in Abuja, where the chairman stated that Kwankwaso was anticipated to rejoin the ruling party after the 2023 elections, citing what he called the NNPP’s demise.
