The All Progressives Congress (APC) has vowed that it’s gubernatorial candidate, Senator Uba Sani, will end the political journey of the New Nigerian Peoples Party (NNPP) gubernatorial candidate, Senator Suleiman Othman Hunkuyi, come 2023 elections.
Responding to comments by Hunkuyi that he brought APC to power in 2015, the Kaduna state APC campaign council said Hunkuyi never won an election after serving as Makarfi local government chairman during the Babangida regime, adding that the NNPP guber candidate has been a nomadic politician moving from one party to another and often betraying his benefactors.
A statement signed by the Director of Strategic Communication, Kaduna state APC Campaign Council, Malam Ibraheem Musa, said, “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).
“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.
“Alhaji Suleiman Othman Hunkuyi is a nomadic politician and his political trajectory is replete with defections, betrayals and biting the fingers that feed him. 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. 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),” Ibraheem Musa added.
