2027: We must look beyond tribe, religion – Kwankwaso

A chieftain of the Nigeria Democratic Congress, NDC, Rabi’u Kwankwaso, has called on Nigerians to look beyond tribe and religion in the next year’s general elections.

Kwankwaso made this call on Sunday in an interview with Trust TV while speaking on the 2027 general elections.

He said the North and the Muslims cannot play politics without the Christians and the Southern part of the country.

The former presidential candidate of the New Nigerian Peoples Party, NNPP, also extolled his party man and former Labour Party presidential candidate, Peter Obi, acknowledging that he is popular in the entire South and many Northern States.

“We must look beyond tribe and religion. We are Northerners and Muslims, and everybody knows that, but we can’t play politics without Christians, Southeast, South-South or South-west.

“If you look at it, Peter Obi is a very popular politician in the entire South and many parts of Northern Nigeria and you cannot take that from him, the same with the Kwankwasiyya movement.

“We are lucky that our supporters are mainly young men and women who are looking for a way out. They are not looking for their brothers or their sisters or somebody close,” he said.