27th April, 2024
The National Chairman of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC), Dr Abdullahi Ganduje, has alleged that protesters calling for his replacement with somebody from the North Central are being sponsored by Kano State Governor.
Ganduje said this in a statement by his Special Assistant on Civil Society and Support Groups, Comrade Okpokwu Ogenyi.
He said the Kano State Government has been hiring people from the streets, mostly Kwankwasiyya Movement members who are loyal to the ruling Nigeria People’s Party, NNPP from the North Central geo-political zone, to protest and ask for resignation.
Ganduje also alleged in the statement that he is privy to credible information that Governor Abba Yusuf is working with some persons from the North Central zone and has doled out huge sum of money to some persons to sustain campaign against him and the current APC National Working Committee in his desperate but fruitless mission to remove him from office as he National Chairman of the opposition party.
“They have now resorted to using some persons in the North Central geo-political zone to demand Ganduje’s removal after they failed woefully to achieve their satanic agenda in Kano State.
“What is of concern to us is the wastage of state resources badly in need in Kano State for the provision of basic amenities to our people. This is politics taken too far.
“Some of the hired protesters also forgot that they were dressed in Kwankwasiyya T-shirts and caps during the protest to the APC National Secretariat, yet claimed to be members of the APC; what a dangerous move to scuttle peace of our party.”
The APC National Chairman therefore called on security agents to be vigilant to ensure security of lives and property.