2027 Polls: You Are Hallucinating, Doguwa Replies Kwankwaso

Chairman of the House of Representatives Committee on Petroleum Resources (Upstream), Rt. Hon. Alhassan Ado Doguwa, has flayed the national leader of the New Nigeria People’s Party (NNPP), Senator Rabiu Musa Kwankwaso, over the latter’s comments that Nigerians will vote out the All Progressives Congress (APC) in the 2027 election cycles, describing the postulation as ‘hallucinations’.

LEADERSHIP reports that Kwankwaso, while speaking at a political gathering in Kano on Thursday, had said Nigerians, especially Northerners, were tired of the APC and would vote for a real change in the 2027 presidential election.

But, reacting in a statement on Friday, Doguwa said Kwankwaso was yet to recover from the defeat he suffered at the hands of President Bola Tinubu during the 2023 presidential election, hence the NNPP chieftain was hallucinating about the next election in 2027.

Doguwa, who’s the member representing Tudun Wada/Doguwa Federal Constituency of Kano State in the House of Representatives, said the former governor of Kano State should stop the hallucinations and face his imminent retirement from the political scene in 2027.

“At a political gathering on Thursday, my colleague in the House of Representatives in the 3rd Republic, Kwankwaso, took his hallucination to the moon when he said Nigerians are tired of APC and will change it in 2027. As we all know, President Bola Ahmed Tinubu is not leaving any stone unturned in his quest to return our country to the path of progress and prosperity for the benefit of all,” he said.

The former House leader said President Tinubu took over the mantle of leadership in the country 16 months ago when the economy was in terrible shape in all spheres.

He said that since assuming office on May 29, 2023, President Tinubu had been working genuinely to correct the fiscal misalignments, the bane of the country’s economic downturn.

Doguwa said under Tinubu, the country has attracted foreign direct investments worth more than $30 billion in 16 months. He said President Tinubu has paid a forex backlog of $7 billion and cleared the ways and means of over N30 trillion he inherited from the last administration.

“President Tinubu reduced the debt service ratio from 97 to 68 per cent and kept our foreign reserve at $37 billion. Only this week, the Economic Stabilisation Bills have been transmitted to us in the National Assembly to stimulate our productive capacity and create more jobs and prosperity in the country,” he said.

In the area of security, Doguwa said the government has eliminated over 300 Boko Haram and bandit commanders, including Kachalla Halilu Sububu, who terrorised the people in Sokoto, Zamfara, Katsina and Kaduna States for over five years.

He urged Kwankwaso to free and stop remote-controlling the Kano State governor, Abba Kabir Yusuf, saying, “The disgruntled NNPP government has already lost focus and fell out with the good people of Kano State.

“No matter the noise Kwankwaso makes, the APC in Kano is already poised to unseat the kangaroo NNPP government in Kano State come 2027 following the non-performance, loss of people’s confidence and breach of electoral confidence of the NNPP.”

Doguwa also said Kwankwaso lacked the morality to speak for the people of the North, adding that his assertion was only a whimsical statement applicable to himself.