- The Director-General of Media and Publicity at the Kano Government House, Sunusi Tofa, has claimed that former Governor Rabiu Musa Kwankwaso is strategically aligning his moves to favor President Bola Tinubu’s 2027 second-term ambition.
- Tofa revealed that Governor Abba Yusuf, with Kwankwaso’s explicit consent and the backing of former Deputy Governor Aminu Gwarzo, had previously approached President Tinubu regarding a potential defection to the All Progressives Congress (APC).
- The government spokesperson dismissed claims of a five-million-man gathering at Kwankwaso’s home as mathematically impossible and asserted that former Labour Party candidate Peter Obi faces severe ideological limitations within Kano’s conservative political environment.
On Wednesday, May 20, 2026, the chief press spokesperson for the Kano State executive, Sunusi Tofa, stated that recent strategic engagements by opposition figures indicate subtle cross-party cooperation.
Eko Hot Blog reports that Tofa argued that the broader nationwide calculations currently being promoted by Kwankwaso will ultimately split opposition structures to the direct advantage of the ruling APC ahead of the next national election cycle.
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The spokesperson went further to outline high-level political talks that have taken place behind closed doors.
According to Tofa, Governor Abba Yusuf had opened direct communication lines with President Tinubu to negotiate a structural defection from the New Nigeria Peoples Party (NNPP) into the ruling APC.
He noted that this political maneuver was initiated with the knowledge of Kwankwaso and received substantial backing from the state’s former Deputy Governor, Aminu Gwarzo, pointing toward deeper cracks within the core regional opposition machinery.
Addressing recent media narratives, the government representative aggressively downplayed the current physical footprint of the Kwankwasiyya leadership.
Tofa dismissed viral public reports claiming that an estimated five million supporters had recently massed at Kwankwaso’s private Kano residence, labeling the figures as a gross fabrication.
He noted that even the largest public amphitheaters and sports arenas across Kano State lack the structural capacity to host such a crowd, maintaining that the former governor’s residence cannot realistically accommodate more than 2,000 individuals at any given time.
The spokesperson also offered a blunt assessment of how external political actors will fare in the commercial nerve center of the North, specifically targeting the regional prospects of Peter Obi.
Tofa asserted that political acceptance across Kano remains rigidly dictated by deep historical ideologies and conservative regional dynamics, elements that he believes will significantly limit Obi’s ability to capture the grassroots vote.
While efforts to secure an immediate counter-statement from Kwankwaso’s media team proved unsuccessful at the time of broadcast, the open criticism from the Governor’s office confirms a massive shift in a relationship that completely dominated Kano’s 2023 electoral outcome.
