The All Progressives Congress (APC) has distanced itself from an alleged splinter group, Team New Nigeria (TNN), after the group flooded Kano metropolis with campaign posters of former President Goodluck Jonathan.

The ruling party insisted that the group did not emanate from its fold and were not known members at any level of the APC.

The rebuttal comes five days after the TNN announced that its loyalists were leaving the ruling party to form a new political party.

The group’s National President, Modibbo Farakwai, boasted that they were targeting no fewer than 26 million voters across the country. On Thursday, posters of Jonathan running for election in 2027 flooded Kano streets, sparking speculations about his possible return to active politics.

Reacting, Deputy National Organising Secretary of the APC, Nze Chidi Duru, said that the printing and promotion of Jonathan’s campaign posters despite knowing he is not a card-carrying member was a further validation that the TNN was never from the fold of the APC.

“I will not venture into any conjecture. It is a group I consider to be amorphous that is not known to the APC. If they were genuine members of the APC, it would have been clear to them that former President Goodluck Jonathan was not a member of the party,” Duru explained.