2015: APC Chieftains Deny Endorsing Kwankwaso
Some Chieftains of the Kano State All Progressives Congress (APC) have denied endorsing Governor Rabiu Kwankwaso for the 2015 presidential election.
This was disclosed in a statement issued yesterday, September 9, by leaders of the legacy party which merged to form APC, Alhaji Musa Umar (of the defunct Action Congress of Nigeria, ACN), Mallam Muktar Kwaru, (of the defunct All Nigeria Peoples Party, ANPP) and Garba Bala of the defunct Congress for Progressives Change, CPC), Nigerian Tribune reports.
In the statement which was issued in Abuja, the trio debunked an earlier report signed by Ambassador Kabir Rabiu and Saleh Jelli and published in a national daily, which claimed that the elders’ committee of Kano State APC had endorsed Kwankwaso to contest for President in 2015 elections.
They said: “The leaders of the three legacy parties have not endorsed any presidential candidate, nor have elders of the legacy parties.”
The chieftains explained that the report was far from the truth because at the moment, there is no formal elders committee of the APC in Kano.
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“What we have is a committee of leaders of the legacy parties in the persons of Alhaji Bashir Othman Tofa (ANPP), Mallam Musa Gwadabe (ACN) and Mallam Sabo Nanono (CPC), who have no knowledge of such committee,” the trio said.
They added that Kabir and Saleh who signed the report had no authority to speak for the legacy parties as they were not members of the legacy parties but members of the Kwankwasiyya Group.
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On August 27, 2014, there were reports that Governor of Kano State, Gov. Kwankwaso of Kano state had declared his intention to run for the post of president on the platform of the All Progressives Congress (APC).
Shortly after, Kwankwaso responded to the report by saying he is still soliciting the opinions of friends and political associates on whether to join the race for the post of president the forthcoming election.
Kwankwaso was elected as the Executive Governor of the northern Nigerian state of Kano on 27 April 2011 and sworn in on 29 May 2011.
Source: Legit.ng
