By Aliyu Askira
Kano
Worried by the rumour making the rounds in Kano and other Northern states that former Kano state Governor, Dr. Rabiu Musa Kwankwaso, had planned to dump the All Progressives Congress (APC) for the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), his political adviser, Dr. Yunusa Adamu Dan Gwani, has clarified that his boss was not planning to leave the APC “now or in the near future.”
Gwani told our correspondent in a telephone chat that the fact that Senator Kwankwaso was in Lapai, Niger state, on Sunday, to attend the wedding fatiha of the daughter of a former Niger state Governor, Engr. Abdulkadir Kure, alongside other Governors, had nothing to do with PDP’s alleged plan to reconcile with its former Governors that left the party in order to position itself very well for the 2019 General Elections.
“Today in Kano, if you remove Kwankwasiyya structure from the APC, you will discover that APC will be empty and cannot win any election without the massive support of former Governor Rabiu Musa Kwankwaso. Yes, he was in Lapai over the weekend for a wedding, but people should know that Kwankwaso and Engineer Abdulkadir Kure, the father of the groom, are long-time friends, so there was no meeting by those from the APC wanting to join the PDP which Senator Kwankwaso attended.”
It would be recalled that when news filtered out in the Social Media that Senator Kwankwaso was spotted in Lapai at the weekend and was said to be there to attend a PDP reconciliation meeting, his supporters in Kano started asking questions about whether or not the former Governor was planning to dump the party, especially with his recent feud with Governor Abdullahi Umar Ganduje of Kano state.