Kano state governor, Dr Rabiu Musa Kwankwaso, has disclosed the reason he sent delegates to the national conference, saying that it was because he wanted Kano people to get the presidential bonanza and tea and return to the state.
Addressing APC stakeholders in Kano, before leaving for the United States of America, the governor said, “Nothing useful will come out of the Abuja jamboree; it will only give the 492 delegates the opportunity to remember that they are from different religions, belong to different tribes and sentiments and at the end of the exercise they will go home without achieving anything because they were not elected.”
He said: “Some people are even saying that there are no-go areas; if it is true, then why are you calling people to Abuja to waste their time since they cannot discuss the corporate existence of the country. Northern elders met in Kano recently and said they wanted the conference to have sovereign powers; that means even after this conference, people will still agitate for another one with full powers.”
Continuing, he said: ‘‘In Kano state, we are sending our best; Alhaji Yahaya Sule Hamma, former DG, Buhari for President, former minister Aisha Isma’il and a radical commentator, Dr Junaidu Mohammed, and we directed them to canvass for a new revenue formula and the so-called resource control.
“When the North, through agriculture, was sustaining this country, northerners never talked of resource control, but if you see what the oil producing states are collecting today in the name of derivation, you will cry; but if you go to their areas there is still poverty and under development.”
Speaking earlier, the APC caretaker chairman in the state, Engr Tijjani Gwarzo, said he had never seen the type of commitment and zeal Governor Kwankwaso had put in to develop Kano and his people, and prayed God to grant him long life to enable him to continue to serve humanity.
