Shekarau during an interview on Channels TV on Thursday, monitored by SaharaReporters, said Kwankwaso gave him the Kano Central senatorial form but shunned and schemed out his political associates.
Former Kano governor, Senator Ibrahim Shekarau, has accused the presidential candidate of the New Nigeria Peoples Party, NNPP, Rabiu Kwankwaso of betrayal and manipulation.
Shekarau during an interview on Channels TV on Thursday, monitored by SaharaReporters, said Kwankwaso gave him the Kano Central senatorial form but shunned and schemed out his political associates.
He said, "I think the least you can call it, betrayal and outright disregard, outright manipulation and we felt that I have told you earlier on our guiding principles, all my political associates this is known to everyone. It is the protection of our image, the protection of our integrity and you cannot have integrity protected if there's not going to be sincerity, if there's not going to be trust and truth.
"On the 18th of May, we made a formal declaration and Kwankwaso came with all his political associates; it was a very big ceremony. It was at that meeting that he brought the senatorial form of Kano central seat and presented it to me.
“He said I was the first to receive the form. At that time, 18th of May, no other candidate had been identified or listed or given form.”
Shekarau said by midnight of May 18, a list for various positions was released by the NNPP which left out the names of his political associates.
He said, “In fact, the list released on the 18th, some constituencies have no name. The following morning, I met him and challenged him about the list released. We said this is unacceptable because in the entire list, except my name, no other name from our own movement, from our own political associates was reflecting on the list.
"We sat down with Rabiu Kwankwaso. I submitted this proposal, he accepted it and he said in about one or two, three days, he’s going to prepare his proposal. And then I together with him will sit down to sort ourselves out and harmonise and see what we can do to produce electable people in our various constituencies.”
He said an eight-man committee was set up by the two of them to include the names of those people excluded. Shekarau, however, added that the names were not added for about three months until the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) called on political parties to put the names of all their candidates on the INEC portal.
He further stated that it was during an interview on BBC Hausa service that Kwankwaso revealed that there was no way certain provisions could be made for Shekarau’s movement because they joined the party late.
“But to our surprise, a few days later, my brother Rabiu Kwankwaso was on air on the Hausa service of the BBC, saying that there was no way we could be attended to because we joined the party when it was too late,” he said.
"If you knew we were late, that we came in late on the 18th of May and you're saying when we came in, we were late. Did you know we were late and you agreed that the committee be set up? The idea of the committee even came from him. If you're not being deceitful, why did you allow us to set up a committee, working for three months and yet in the end you're telling us nothing was done because we came in late?”
Shekarau, who recently defected from the NNPP to the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) after falling out with Kwankwaso, said his new party would clear the votes in Kano.