2027: ‘It won’t go against Electoral Act’ – Mato on Kwankwaso joining another party

A chieftain of the New Nigerian Peoples Party, NNPP, Magaji Mato, SAN, has said that determination volition beryllium nary occupation astir gathering the deadline arsenic provided by the Electoral Act should Rabiu Kwankwaso determine to determination to different party.

According to him, the NNPP and radical successful Kwankwaso’s campy are not sleeping implicit issues concerning the Electoral Act arsenic it is becoming wide that Kwankwaso and others mightiness permission the NNPP for different party.

Speaking connected Arise News connected Tuesday morning, Mato, a chieftain of the NNPP, was asked whether Kwankwaso whitethorn not beryllium going against the Electoral Act 2026 if helium leaves the NNPP, wherever helium has already done his physics registration, for different enactment wherever helium would beryllium required to truthful again.

This would mean that his sanction would look connected 2 enactment registers.

In response, Mato said that everything is being taken attraction of regarding a imaginable defection to different party.

“What volition beryllium done is clear. As soon arsenic helium defects to immoderate governmental party, possibly immoderate different governmental party, arsenic the lawsuit whitethorn be, helium volition decidedly resign his presumption wrong the abstraction arsenic allowe...