By Suleiman Anyalewechi
The All Progressive Congress APC has insisted that the Governor of Kano state Abba Kabir Yusuf and his political mentor Dr Rabiu Musa Kwankwaso are allegedly the masterminds of Thursday April 25 ,spate of anti Ganduje protest marches that rocked the Abuja National Secretariat of the party.
Providing an insight into how protesters were allegedly recruited and paid ,to demand for the resignation of the APC National Chairman, Comrade Okpokwu Ogenyi, Special Assistant to Dr Abdullahi Ganduje on Civil Society and Support Groups, noted in a statement issued on Friday, April 26, 2024, that the protesters were promised N50,000 each by the Kano State authorities to stage the protest .
However, they were finally paid the sum of N10,000 each, a development which led to some of them opting to spill the oil.
According to Ogenyi, the media aide to the Kano state Governor, Sanusi Bature Dawakin Tofa, allegedly superintended over the recruitment exercise of the hirelings.
The statement which further claimed that Bature earned the confidence of his principals following strong assurances that ,he possesses the magic wand to unseat the APC National Chairman, allegedly recruited most of the Abuja protesters from the rank of the Kwankwasiyya political group in Kano.
“We are privy to credible information that Governor Abba Kabir Yusuf, working with some persons from the North Central geo- political zone, has doled out huge sums of money to some persons to sustain campaign against the Ganduje led Working Committee of the APC ,in his desperate but fruitless mission to remove him as the National Chairman .
“The party is, therefore, calling on the various anti graft agencies in the country, particularly, the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC and the Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commppission ICPC, to investigate Kano State Government spendings”, the statement stated.
The Source reports that on Thursday April 25, some protesters under the aegis of Concerned APC North Central Stakeholders staged a protest at the Party’s National Headquarters in Abuja, ⁸⅞7th for the resignation of Dr Ganduje ,as the APC National Chairman.
Their Spokesperson Mohammed Mahmud Saba ,while addressing the media ,said their protest and demand were premised on the fact the position of the APC National Chairman was at the 2022 National Convention ceded to the North Central zone .
They insisted that after the resignation of the former Governor of Nasarawa state ,Senator Abdullahi Adamu ,in 2023 ,his replacement was supposed to be picked from the zone.
They described the choice of Dr Ganduje from the North West region ,as a deliberate attempt to short change APC Northcentral members.
Instructively, penultimate week the Kano state Chairman of the APC ,Alhaji Abdullahi Abbas had at the tick of the initial efforts by some self acclaimed APC leaders from the Ganduje Ward ,in Dawakin Tofa local Council of the state led by one Haladu Gwanjo to oust the party’s National Chairman, equally accused the Kano State Authorities of complicity in the now botched suspension plot.
” We have evidence of meetings between the people behind the purported suspension of Ganduje as the National Chairman of the party with some officials of the kano state Government” Abbas had stated .
