The National Leader of the New Nigeria People’s Party (NNPP), Senator Rabiu Musa Kwankwaso, and the party’s National Working Committee (NWC) have described Governor Abba Yusuf’s resignation from the party as “a cold betrayal of a sacred trust.”
Addressing his loyalists at his Miller Road residence in Kano, Kwankwaso declared January 23 as “World Betrayal Day”.
He said the idea of adopting the day as such was inspired by social media commentators who described the governor’s NNPP exit as a betrayal.
The NNPP leader said, “None caught my attention more than one who posted, suggesting that we declare January 23 annually as World Betrayal Day.
“Therefore, as the leader and grand patron of this movement, I hereby declare that I fully support the declaration,” he said.
Kwankwaso added that the day would henceforth be marked with special events to remind members of what transpired.
Similarly, the NNPP, in a statement signed yesterday by its National Publicity Secretary, Ladipo Johnson, described Governor Yusuf’s claim of an irredeemable crisis in the party as baseless and an afterthought.
The governor’s spokesperson, Sanusi Bature, had announced Governor Yusuf’s resignation from the NNPP in a statement issued on Friday.
Reacting, the NNPP’s spokesman said that the party received the news of the governor’s resignation with profound anguish and deep disappointment.
“We deeply regret that Governor Abba, a man entrusted by the people of Kano State on the strength of his decades of unwavering loyalty and dedicated service to the Kwankwasiyya Movement, has now chosen to betray that sacred trust. By this action, he risks returning the state to the very forces that have long opposed its progress and the aspirations of its people.
“It is noteworthy that our party, the NNPP, had recently conducted congresses for its leadership from the ward to the national convention, held on December 20, 2025, at which the governor himself was present, and INEC had supervised”.
