Baba‑Ahmed says he remains friends with Obi and Kwankwaso even after parting ways.

The leadership of the People’s Redemption Party (PRP) stated that it continues to maintain a good relationship with the NDC presidential candidate Peter Obi and Vice‑Presidential candidate Rabiu Kwankwaso.

The party rejected claims that former Kano State governor and NDC Vice‑Presidential candidate Rabiu Kwankwaso purchased 69 nomination forms for PRP candidates.

National Chairman of the PRP, Hakeem Baba‑Ahmed, who appeared on the Arise Television Morning Show, said that although Obi and Kwankwaso had left his party, he remains friends with them.

“I’ve said this many times. Yes, they did come to our party. We spent some time discussing whether they could come into the party, whether they could join the party. In the end, they decided that there wasn’t enough evidence on the ground that their needs would be met by the party, and they moved on, and we parted as friends, and we’re still friends with them,” Ahmed said.

On the allegation that Kwankwaso bought PRP nomination forms, Ahmed said: “This is complete fiction, and I am grateful for this, the opportunity to clarify this with the state chairman, the real state chairman of the PRP in Kano had already stated, released a statement saying this is just complete false account.”

“There’s no way former Governor Kwankwaso could have bought 69 forms from the PRP in Kano. We don’t sell forms in Kano, we sell forms from Abuja.”

He said the person who claimed they had sold 69 forms to Kwankwaso was unknown to the party.

“He has no position. He is not in any position, he has no authority to sell any forms. We don’t know him. It is possible that this entire thing has been contrived as part of some problems or some politics in Kano.”

“As far as the PRP is concerned, we sell forms as we sell to everybody else from Abuja. We sell forms to candidates from Kano. They registered, they contested, they went through primaries more than a month ago.”

“We’ve got the candidates have emerged from there, and we have, we are forwarding their names to INEC, so we are also, we were both amused and, to be quite honest, shocked that somebody could come out of the blues and make this kind of comments.”

“I’ve spoken to Kwankwaso myself, and he’s as amused as everybody else that he would buy 69 forms for non-existent candidates, he’s not a member of the party, so that’s about the forms. You asked a second question, whether it is true that former Governor Obi and former Senator Kwankwaso came to our party.”