A former member of the Home of Representatives, Farouk Lawan, has stated his current presidential pardon has given him a recent begin in politics, including that the New Nigeria Folks’s Party (NNPP) is simply too small to accommodate his political ambition.
Lawan, who represented Bagwai/Shanono Federal Constituency of Kano State, was amongst 175 individuals granted presidential pardon by President Bola Ahmed Tinubu on October 9.
The previous lawmaker was convicted in 2021 on three counts of corruption for allegedly gathering a bribe in 2012 to take away an organization’s identify from an inventory of corporations indicted within the gasoline subsidy rip-off. He accomplished his jail time period and regained freedom in October 2024.
Talking in an interview with the BBC, Lawan stated the expertise throughout his incarceration reshaped his views about politics and loyalty, including that he felt uncared for by the management of the Kwankwasiyya motion, to which he belonged for years.
“Every time God places you thru a trial, He additionally opens your eyes to see who your true companions are,” Lawan stated, lamenting {that a} prime determine within the motion by no means reached out to him all through his ordeal.
“It’s been a 12 months now. He by no means referred to as to want me nicely and even to say, ‘Might Allah bless you for regaining your freedom,’” he added.
Lawan defined that whereas he remained a member of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) throughout his imprisonment, he had instructed his supporters to hitch the NNPP forward of the 2023 basic elections.
Nonetheless, he stated his present political outlook had outgrown the NNPP, describing the occasion as too restrictive for his new political path.
“Politics ought to be broad and inclusive. The NNPP, because it stands now, feels too slender for me,” he stated, including that he plans to rejoin “mainstream nationwide politics” within the coming months.
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