The All Progressives Congress has set up a three-man panel to resolve the crisis in the Kano State chapter of the party.
Governor Abdullahi Ganduje has been
locked in a fierce battle with his predecessor Rabiu Kwankwaso over the
control of the APC in the state.
But the National Chairman of the party
Chief John Odigie-Oyegun says the APC National Secretary Mai Mala
Buni; National Organising Secretary Osita Izunaso; and Vice-Chairman
Lawan Shuiabu (North) had been mandated to resolve the crisis.
Odigie-Oyegun said this while
responding to a presentation by a delegation of the party from Kano at
the national secretariat in Abuja on Tuesday.
The former Edo State governor said, “We
have only one governor in Kano State, there is no doubt about this. It
is in our interest that the challenge between this two of our leaders
does not degenerate further.
“It is important for the party’s
leadership in Kano to be united behind the governor, especially now
that resources are very, very lean.
“Let me warn that the greatest
disservice we can do to ourselves is to have internal wars, especially
in a state as crucial as Kano.”
Spokesman for the party in the state,
Bashir Karaye, in a presentation on behalf of the delegation of over
100 elected and appointed party members including senators, House of
Representatives members, state House of Assembly members, Commissioners
and Special Advisers from Kano, condemned Kwankwaso’s behaviour during
his last visit to the state.
According to Karaye, while many people
within and outside the state condole with the governor over the death
of his mother, Kwankwaso even refused to visit him.
He said, “Sadly and unfortunately, the
purported visit by Senator Kwankwaso was to say the least a misnomer to
cultural and religious norms and had assaulted the person of the
governor and his government.”
Meanwhile, governors from the North-West
held a closed-door meeting at the Maitama residence of Kwankwaso late
on Monday in a bid to reconcile the senator with the governor.
Although both men attended the meeting and posed for photographs afterwards, none of them spoke to reporters.
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