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The All Progressives Congress, on Thursday, distanced itself again from an alleged splinter group, Team New Nigeria, after the group flooded Kano metropolis with the campaign posters of former President Goodluck Jonathan.
The ruling party insisted the group did not emanate from its fold and were not known members at any level of the APC.
The rebuttal comes five days after the TNN announced that its loyalists were leaving the ruling party to form a new political party that would rescue Nigeria from the threshold of poverty, hunger, insecurity and devastation.
The group’s National President, Modibbo Farakwai, boasted at the official inauguration of the Kano State harmonisation committee that they were targetting no fewer than 26 million voters across the country.
On Thursday, posters of the former President running for election in 2027 flooded Kano streets, sparking speculations about his possible return to the political arena.
The posters, seen at strategic locations such as Gyadi-Gyadi/Zoo Road flyover, Kofar Nasarawa, and State Road, featured messages like “Team New Nigeria 2027; The Goodluck Nigeria Needs — Dr Goodluck Jonathan.”
The development intensified conversations about the 2027 presidential race, with prominent figures like Peter Obi, Atiku Abubakar, and the incumbent President Bola Tinubu expected to contest.
Efforts to reach Jonathan’s spokesman, Okechukwu Eze, for reaction were, however, unsuccessful.
The former President faced similar circumstances when numerous supporters procured nomination forms for him on the APC platform for the 2023 elections, a move he claimed to be unaware of.
TNN has constituted a harmonisation committee in Kano State and was on the verge of registering as a political party with the Independent National Electoral Commission. Punch
