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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