2023: Kwankwaso Is Going Nowhere, He’s Now A Featherweight – Ganduje

Governor Abdullahi Umar Ganduje of Kano State has said the presidential candidate of the New Nigeria Peoples Party (NNPP), Senator Rabiu Musa Kwankwaso, has no political relevance in the state.

Speaking in an interview on Channels TV’s Politics Today on Monday, Ganduje said the strength of Kwankwaso’s political movement has greatly reduced across the state.

He asserted that Kwankwaso’s followers are leaving his party and joining the All Progressives Congress (APC) in the state and other parts of the North.

The governor claimed that his predecessor and his party would go nowhere at the presidential election as well as at the state level.

He said: “We will soon start our gubernatorial campaign in Kano; you will see our followership which is rising on the daily basis. When you talk of the Kwankwasiyya group, you see that Kwankwasiyya, too, has reduced in strength because a great number of them are coming back to APC after knowing that their party will go nowhere at the presidential election and even at the state level, we will slug it out.”

Speaking further, Ganduje said the ruling APC is more united now in the state, adding that the internal crisis rocking the party has been resolved ahead of the 2023 elections.

The governor added that the misunderstanding between the Majority Leader of the House of Representatives, Hon Alhassan Ado Doguwa, and the party’s deputy gubernatorial candidate has been settled.

He said, “Even the misunderstanding between the Majority Leader of the House of Representatives and our former commissioner for local government has been resolved. Hon Alhassan Ado Doguwa and the deputy gubernatorial candidate had some misunderstanding, but that one we sat down under my chairmanship and everything has been put in an order now.

“If you listen to the press release that we offered and what the Majority Leader said, you will know that the problem is completely solved. Even today, they were together and took some pictures and issued a press release together. Everything is normal at our party. I assure you that we have many entrances, and many people are coming into the party both from PDP and other political parties.

“We don’t think it is when you fight other political parties that proves that you are strong. You need to organize yourself in a civilized way; that does not mean you are not strong; it means that you know what it takes to do modern democracy and that is what we’re experiencing in Kano.”