APC National Chairman, Ganduje Mocks  Kwankwaso Over Alleged Failed Ministerial Ambition

By Ayodele Oni

The bitterness generated by his defeat in Kano state during the last general election is yet to abate, as the National Chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Abdullahi Ganduje, tackled the presidential candidate of the New Nigeria Peoples Party (NNPP), Rabiu Kwankwaso, accusing him of lobbying to be the Minister of the Federal Capital Territory in President Bola Tinubu’s cabinet.

Ganduje lost his second term bid to the candidate of NNPP on the election, a party which Kwankwaso co founded and contested for the presidential election.

At the early stage of the administration, Ganduje and Kwankwaso almost clashed at the seat of government when both of them met at Aso Rock during individuals visit to President Tinubu.

Ganduje, claimed that Kwankwaso supported the demolition of buildings in Kano to portray himself as a minister who will revive the master plan of Abuja.

The former governor of Kano State made the remarks at a meeting with some of his loyalists and party supporters from the state at the APC secretariat in Abuja.

According to him, his predecessor was desperate to become FCT Minister, but was denied the position by President Tinubu.

Ganduje added that the demolition of buildings approved by his administration was the only way Kwankwaso and Kano State Governor, Abba Yusuf, could express their frustration under the guise of sanitizing Kano’s master plan.

The APC chairman said: “Is it not the FCT minister position that he wanted? That was why he demolished buildings in Kano under the guise that he wanted to defend the master plan. If you ask him what the master plan is, he can’t tell you.

“All you will hear is, ‘We will reset the Kano master plan. We have promised Kano people that we will demolish houses even if they are 1,000-storey buildings’. Look, if an illiterate person does not know he is one, he is certainly blind. That is what befell him.”