According to reports, Rabiu Kwankwaso, the NNPP‘s presidential candidate, was booed on Wednesday in Kogi State.
While making an effort to win over Abubakar Audu supporters, the former governor of Kano State was jeered.
During his visit to Lokoja, the capital of Kogi State, Kwankwaso was stoned, pelted with sachet water by party members in Kogi State.
A faction of the NNPP met him with hostility when he returned to Lokoja after visiting the late Prince Abubakar Audu’s rural estate.
The faction of the party felt Kwankwaso gave prominence to Audu’s loyalists who recently joined the party in the state.
Some aggrieved members who spoke with newsmen disclosed that they had waited since the early hours of the day, only for Kwankwaso to abandon them for Audu’s loyalists.
The aggrieved members claimed that Audu’s loyalists are still members of the ruling All Progressive Congress (APC).
The angry supporters did not give an audience to the NNPP presidential candidate who arrived in a motorcade.
Security operatives had to intervene to whisk him to a popular hotel in the city capital for safety.
A media aide to Kwankwaso, who identified himself as Musa Yunusa, said the action of the aggrieved members is normal in politics.
Yunusa described Kogi State as home to the NNPP presidential candidate.
