The Kaduna State chapter of the All Progressives Congress (APC) has described the governorship candidate of the New Nigerian Peoples Party (NNPP) in the state, Suleiman Hunkuyi, as “a nomadic politician”, saying the latter’s political trajectory is replete with “defections, betrayals, and biting the fingers that feed him”.
The Kaduna APC lashed out at Hunkuyi over claims that he made Nasir El-Rufai the governor of Kaduna State in 2015, stressing that the former Commissioner of Finance would be defeated by the party’s governorship candidate, Uba Sani, in the 2023 gubernatorial election.
The party said this via a statement issued on Tuesday by the Director of Strategic Communication, Kaduna State APC Campaign Council, Ibraheem Musa.
Musa stated: “As Commissioner of Finance from 1999 to 2003, he was Governor Ahmed Makarfi’s confidant but he dumped his benefactor and crossed over to the All Nigerian Peoples Party(ANPP) and contested against his boss. Hunkuyi failed woefully at the polls.
“Afterwards, he returned to the Peoples Democratic Party(PDP) during the Arch Mohammed Namadi Sambo administration. In 2011, Hunkuyi contested against Governor Patrick Yakowa in the primaries. Again, he lost.
“The self acclaimed godfather who never won an election since he became chairman of Makarfi Local Government Area during the Babangida regime, however rode on the Malam Nasir El Rufai’s popularity to be elected Senator in 2015. However, instead of working for the people of Kaduna State, Hunkuyi and his cohort worked against them in the Senate.
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“Specifically, Kaduna State Government sought for $350 million World Bank loan to bridge its infrastructure deficit but Hunkuyi told the Senate that ‘the loan is a misplaced priority’.
“As a payback, the people of Kaduna North Senatorial district voted against Hunkuyi in 2019 for short-changing them.
“Before then, the footloose politician had defected back to the PDP and right now he is the gubernatorial candidate of the New Nigerian People’s Party(NNPP).
“In recent times, Hunkuyi has been granting interviews in the media and emitting the usual hot air and false claim of having made Malam Nasir El Rufai the Governor of Kaduna State in 2015. He repeated this fallacy at an interactive session with representatives of the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC).
“Distinguished Senator Uba Sani, the APC Gubernatorial candidate of Kaduna State, will not only defeat Hunkuyi as Senator Suleiman Abdu Kwari did in 2019, but will nail his final political coffin in the 2023 governorship election,” the statement read.
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