Kano state governor, Dr. Umar Abdullahi Ganduje has formally declared his interest to seek a second term in office come 2019.
The governor also disclosed that his state has concluded plan to drag President Muhammadu Buhari to court if he refuses to declare for second term in office.
Ganduje revealed these in Abuja on Friday, during an interactive session with some journalists that although the President has not made up his mind whether to seek second term in office or not but people were saying he must continue.
While making his intention to seek re-election known, governor Ganduje said: “In Kano, people are saying four plus four, that is they are urging me to contest again but I too feel that in order to continue with the good development that we have started, development require some time and the constitution has given four years and another four years in order to consolidate what one has started.
“I am convinced that I too will seek for second term and people are also urging me to do so. Eventually it will be left to the people to decide whether I will qualify or not.”
On why President Buhari must re-contest in 2019, the governor said: “APC governors want Mr. President to continue. I am happy that it is not the president that said he wants to continue, it is the people that are saying continue but Mr. President has not made up his mind yet.
“When he came to Kano, I told him that any time he decides not to contest we will take him to court, Kano state government will take him to court any time he decides not to contest. So we are waiting for him.
“In this country we saw presidents who spent billions of Naira for third term, so what is the ruse about a constitutional second term. Some people who spent billions of Naira in order to go for third term, I think it should not be news or something like that.”
