Rufai Hanga, a senator representing Kano Central on the New Nigeria Peoples Party (NNPP) platform, revealed how Bola Tinubu, the current president of Nigeria and the former governor of Lagos State, summoned him to Lagos to talk about the creation of the All Progressives Congress (APC).
Hanga claims that without him, the APC would not have been in existence.
According to reports, Hanga revealed this in a recent interview when asked if there are discussions within the NNPP about joining the coalition headed by opposition leaders.
Hanga claimed that his leader, Rabiu Kwankwaso, the former governor of Kano State, has been Tinubu’s friend for a long time.
He mentioned Kwankwaso’s invitation to join the government but his eventual dismissal.
“We have not yet made a decision, but you will hear our decision within the next one or two months,” the NNPP chieftain stated. President Bola Tinubu has been friends with my leader for a long time. Because they had an agreement, they invited Kwankwaso ab initio to join the government, and he accepted.
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However, he was fired and that agreement was revoked. We are grateful that it occurred so early on, before anything even began. This nation is rife with betrayal. APC wouldn’t have been around if it weren’t for me, yet nobody paid me any money. Tinubu asked me to his home when he visited Arewa House in Abuja. We decided on the formation of APC when we were seated in his bedroom.
“I have a lot of respect for him and we have been together for a long time, but his spin doctors do not see that. Only they are aware of it, and this is the first time it has ever occurred in this nation.
We have never had a situation where people were openly boasting that it was their time, even when people from other sections of the country had held power. When you confront them, they will tell you that it’s their time, and they act without consequence.
