Alhaji Abdullahi Umar Ganduje
By Jon Egie
National Chairlan of the All Peoples’ Congress, APC, and immediate past Governor of Kano State, Alhaji Abdullahi Ganduje has accused the New Nigeria Peoples’ Party, NNPP of being jittery over the rising electoral profile of President Bola Tinubu in Kano State.
Ganduje was reacting to his suspension from the party and court order odering him not to parade himself as national chairlan of the APC.
“They are so concerned that we are battle ready to take over the government come 2027. They are so concerned that we got the second highest votes for Mr President and that we will get even higher in order to ensure that 2027 is a walk over”, he told his support group who paid him solidarity visit hours after the court order.
“Their motive is to create confusion in our party so that we won’t have the courage and mind to take over the government of Kano and to also ensure that our president does not have intimidating votes from Kano State. Their intentions will fail.
“We want to assure Mr President that our party in Kano State is intact. It is solid. It is battle ready in order to give the highest votes to Mr President”.
Ganduje described the development as a new “destructive phenomenon”, saying the APC leadership would ensure that the impersonators were punished.
Addressing the support group he said, “We have heard your complaints which is that you have dissociated yourself from the charade and you are appealing to us to take appropriate legal action according to the rule of law.
“This is a new destructive phenomenon in democracy which should not be allowed to thrive, if elements of another political party could sit down and claim that they are executive members of another political party. I think this should be checked even by security agencies”, he said
“After a fair and critical investigation, it was found that those who met with officials of Kano state government are not executive members of either the ward or local government and they are not even members of our political party.
“I have to appreciate you for showing your concern. In fact, what is happening is an incursion into our political party by the NNPP and the government of Kano State in order to destroy our party because they have seen their failures in their first year in office in terms of the economy and political unrest in the state.
Nine ward execitives of the APC including the assistant secrrtary, Laminu Sani, and the legal adviser, Haladu Gwanjo who represented the plaintiffs had suspended Ganduje from the party but a high court in Kano has directed the four parties (respondents) joined in the matter, including APC, APC National Working Committee (NWC), APC Kano State Working Committee (KSWC), and Dr. Abdullahi Umar Ganduje, to henceforth, maintain status quo ante belum as from April 15, 2024, pending the hearing and determination of the substantive suit on April 30, 2024.
Credit: ThisDay
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