A former Nationwide Vice Chairman (North-West) of the All Progressives Congress, Salihu Lukman, has known as on President Bola Tinubu to revisit the political deadlock between the chief of the New Nigeria Folks’s Social gathering, Rabiu Kwankwaso and the APC Nationwide Chairman, Dr Abdullahi Ganduje.
Lukman made the enchantment in an announcement issued in Abuja on Tuesday titled, ‘Ganduje: Indefensibility of ethical and political burden’.
He additionally urged the president to look past the $413,000 and N1.38bn bribery expenses filed towards the APC nationwide chairman by the Kano State authorities.
Each Ganduje and Kwankwaso, two former Kano governors, had been allies earlier than they fell out a couple of years in the past over political variations within the state.
On Monday, the media was awash with the suspension of Ganduje by the Authorized Adviser of his ward within the Dawakin Tofa Native Authorities Space of Kano, Halliru Gwanzo.
Gwanzo stated the APC ward management took the choice given the bribery allegations hanging on Ganduje’s neck.
In a swift response, the Nationwide Working Committee of the ruling social gathering and the Kano State chapter of the social gathering faulted and voided the suspension, saying Gwanzo and the indicted social gathering leaders concerned don’t have the locus standi to question the nationwide chairman.
The ruling social gathering additionally fingered the NNPP-led authorities in Kano State as being behind the transfer.
However Lukman insisted that the President and prime APC stakeholders should act quick to dealer peace between Ganduje and Kwankwaso in the event that they hope to retain their grip on Kano and, by extension, your complete North, even when it entails negotiating an alliance.
He stated, “Being progressives requires honesty, and given the present political actuality, we should settle for that Senator Rabiu Kwankwaso and his NNPP have a stronger assist base in Kano State. And that Kwankwaso was in our social gathering as much as 2018. Additionally between 1999 and 2019, each labored collectively, and we have to revisit points surrounding their disagreement.
“Not at all ought to APC leaders restrict the engagement of points surrounding all of the political challenges going through us as a celebration to solely the difficulty of bribery allegation towards Dr Ganduje.
“If this implies one other spherical of negotiation for political alliance or a merger with Kwankwaso and NNPP, our leaders ought to proceed to behave accordingly. President Tinubu and the APC should take full benefit of the present actuality to renegotiate the assist base of the APC.
“Undoubtedly, this case presents a possibility for President Tinubu to display his progressive and political dexterity. It’s a low-hanging fruit, which, if correctly managed, may additionally save the politics of Dr. Ganduje.
“The arduous fact is that, someway, the politics of Kano State was mismanaged, and as it’s, if we had been unable to win the election in Kano State after we had been answerable for the Kano State Authorities, it will be foolhardy to think about in any other case.”
