According to Punch, Reports that President Bola Tinubu and governors of the ruling All Progressives Congress APC may have agreed on the incumbent governor of Kano State, Dr. Abdullahi Ganduje, to succeed the former national chairman of the APC, Senator Abdullahi Adamu, caused unrest within the party.
While the party’s deputy chairman for the Northwest, Salihu Moh. Lukman was the first to speak out against the proposal, calling it the “height of insensitivity” and “political suicide,” some other party officials regretted that the president may be following the same path as his predecessor, Muhammadu Buhari, who brought Adamu into the party at the last minute.
Former Special Adviser on Media and Publicity to former President Goodluck Jonathan, Dr. Reuben Abati, said the corruption allegations against Dr. Ganduje could haunt him in office.
“The position of a party chairman comes with a lot of responsibilities. It is not a place where he can go and stuff his babanriga with dollars as he has been accused of doing and this matter has run into troubled waters in Kano State. If he becomes party chairman as is speculated, maybe he should not wear a babanriga (flowing dress) because as soon as people see him with a babanriga in an important position, they will look for nylon bags of dollars,” Abati explained.
The Chairman of the Kano State Public Grievances and Anti-Corruption Commission, Muhuyi Rimingado, had said a few days ago that a forensic analysis showed that the of the viral video from 2017 showing Dr. Ganduje allegedly taking bundles of dollar bills as a bribe from a contractor and stuffing them in his flowing dress was not doctored but genuine.
The APC governors, who met at the Imo State governors’ lodge in Abuja between 9:00 p.m. and 11:15 p.m. on Wednesday, were said to have agreed on the choice of Ganduje.
About 30 minutes after the governors left, Dr. Ganduje arrived at the Imo Governor’s Lodge for another private meeting in the of Deputy Senate President Barau Jibrin, himself a native of Kano.
One of the party’s state chairmen from North Central said they were not consulted before Ganduje’s name was proposed. “That’s the tradition. Decisions are made from the top down. Many of us were not consulted.
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