The National Legal Adviser of the New Nigeria Peoples Party (NNPP), Magaji Mato (SAN), has stated that it was not Kano State Governor, Abba Yusuf who was voted into office but, former governor Rabiu Kwankwaso.<\/p>\n
He stated this on Wednesday while speaking on Arise Television\u2019s Morning Show.<\/p>\n
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Mayo said that Yusuf may be feeling guilty over his association with the Kwankwasiyya Movement.<\/p>\n
Yusuf and some politicians who defected along with him to the APC recently had adorned themselves with the Kwankwansiya\u2019s red cap, claiming they were still party of the Kwankwansiya Movement.<\/p>\n
Reacting, Mato argued that it is inconsistent for anyone who identifies as a follower of Kwankwansiya to belong to a political party with an opposing ideology.<\/p>\n
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Mato stated that politicians who still associate with the red cap while operating on different political platforms may be finding it difficult to separate themselves from the movement that brought them into political prominence.<\/p>\n
He suggested that this could be the reason some individuals appear conflicted about their political alignment.<\/p>\n
Mato said: \u201cWearing red cap, everybody knows that that is the signature of the personality of Kwankwaso and Kwankwansiya. So if you say you are still wearing red cap and you are still a Kwankwansiya and are in another party that promotes a different and direct opposite of the ideology of Kwankwansiya, then you have yourself to answer that question.<\/em><\/p>\n Story continues below advertisement\n<\/p>\n <\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n \u201cBecause definitely it\u2019s not just about the red cap, it is about the ideology that the red cap signifies.<\/em><\/p>\n \u201cSo you cannot be a Kwankwaso follower and then be in another platform that promotes a contrary ideology from that of the Kwankwansiya. So it\u2019s not possible. It\u2019s not possible.<\/em><\/p>\n \u201cSo I think maybe their conscience are haunting them, and they are finding it hard to severe themselves from the very roots that brought them to existence. It could be. I cannot say more about the red cap.<\/em><\/p>\n Story continues below advertisement\n<\/p>\n <\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n \u201cAnd that it is the same ideology that brought this current governor of Kano State to power. It was based on that basis, because I can authoritatively tell you that it wasn\u2019t Governor Abba that was voted into power. It was Kwankwaso, that I can tell you, and I\u2019m sure even him will testify to these facts.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n \n <\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The National Legal Adviser of the New Nigeria Peoples Party (NNPP), Magaji Mato (SAN), has stated that it was not Kano State Governor, Abba Yusuf who was voted into office but, former governor Rabiu Kwankwaso. He stated this on Wednesday while speaking on Arise Television\u2019s Morning Show. Story continues below advertisement Mayo said that Yusuf […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":240522,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[5],"tags":[309,1022],"class_list":["post-240521","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics","tag-abba-yusuf","tag-rabiu2019u-kwankwaso"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"amp_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Abba-Gida-Gida.webp.webp","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240521","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=240521"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240521\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/240522"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=240521"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=240521"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=240521"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}