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<\/div>\nDoyin Okupe, the placeholder vice-presidential candidate of the Labour Party (LP), has stated that talks on an alliance between his party and the New Nigeria Peoples Party (NNPP) are \u201cdead\u201d.<\/p>\n
Okupe stated this on Tuesday in an interview with Channels Television.<\/p>\n
He also said the influence of Rabiu Kwankwaso, the NNPP presidential flagbearer of the New Nigeria Peoples Party (NNPP) is limited to Kano.<\/p>\n
He added that the latter doesn\u2019t have the capacity to fulfill the aspirations of youths on national development.<\/p>\n
\u201cFor Kwankwaso to come on national television to play an ethnic card, saying the north will not vote for a candidate in the south-east, this is a man that is electorally restricted to Kano and that\u2019s the problem,\u201d Okupe said.<\/p>\n
Also Read: 2023: Stop Linking Us With Peter Obi \u2013 IPOB Tells Kwankwaso<\/strong><\/p>\n \u201cHe\u2019s judging everybody else in the north with the prism of what he sees in the Kwankwasiyya movement in Kano.<\/p>\n \u201cHow do you measure seniority in politics? Is it age or how many years you\u2019ve been in politics? And that\u2019s not the issue right now. The issue is who can solve the problem facing the country. What Kwankwaso is delving into and relying on is that he\u2019s been speaker of the house of assembly, a senator, a governor for two terms. That doesn\u2019t answer the question the young Nigerians are asking.<\/p>\n \u201cThe young Nigerians are saying \u2018our future is in dire straits and we need a man that can drive the country well\u2019. Kwankwaso has nothing in his background that convinces anybody that he can match Peter Obi. It\u2019s not a matter of seniority; it\u2019s a matter of capacity.<\/p>\n \u201cThose discussions about mergers, alliance were led by me from our side and it\u2019s dead and buried. The Labour Party and its presidential candidate have long since withdrawn from that conversation. It was NNPP that tried to continue to benefit from the traction of the popularity of Obi.<\/p>\n \u201cThe talk about the alliance had been dead for over four weeks.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Okupe Doyin Okupe, the placeholder vice-presidential candidate of the Labour Party (LP), has stated that talks on an alliance between his party and the New Nigeria Peoples Party (NNPP) are \u201cdead\u201d. Okupe stated this on Tuesday in an interview with Channels Television. He also said the influence of Rabiu Kwankwaso, the NNPP presidential flagbearer of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1142980,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3888],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1142978","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nigeria-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1142978","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1142978"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1142978\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1142978"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1142978"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1142978"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}