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Bafarawa: Wamakko Must Join from his Ward
. Shekarau: Absent at APC Visit to Kwankwaso
. Gundiri: Nyako is a Minus to APC
. Lai: We’ll Work with G-7 Governors
. Shekarau: Absent at APC Visit to Kwankwaso
. Gundiri: Nyako is a Minus to APC
. Lai: We’ll Work with G-7 Governors
Even as it has become obvious that the G-7 governors who have fallen out with the mainstream Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) are making final preparations to join the All Progressives Congress (APC), some powerful chieftains in the APC have started expressing reservations at the move.
Spearheading the demand for the governor to meet certain conditions before being accepted in the APC were the former governors of Kano and Sokoto states, Malam Ibrahim Shekarau and Attahiru Dalhatu Bafarawa, respectively.
Spearheading the demand for the governor to meet certain conditions before being accepted in the APC were the former governors of Kano and Sokoto states, Malam Ibrahim Shekarau and Attahiru Dalhatu Bafarawa, respectively.
The duo, who disclosed their position separately, maintained that the would-be new members will have to follow all the laid down rules and regulation of the party at their point of entry, which will ensure that the party structure will not be hijacked by the new governors.
The leadership of the APC had in the last three days stormed Sokoto, Kano, Jigawa and Adamawa states to persuade the state governors to decamp from the PDP into the APC.
The move came days after Governor Rabi’u Musa Kwankwaso’s disclosure that one of the options that was opened to the G-7 governors was move into the APC.
But while speaking to Sunday Trust in Sokoto yesterday, Bafarawa said for Governor Aliyu Magatakarda Wamako to be integrated into the APC, he had to register with the party at his ward.
“Let him go there and register for his membership card at the wards and local government up to the national level. So, there is no shortcut whether G7, G14 or G20, you have to follow the due process,” he said.
Bafarawa, who was not at the commissioning ceremony of University of Sokoto, which had General Muhammadu Buhari, Bola Ahmed Tinubu, APC Interim National Chairman Chief Bisi Akande and other APC leaders in attendance, said the G-7 governors will not be allowed to use money to take control of the party.
“We don’t want the party to look like the rich people have it. We want to move away from money politics, we want to give the grassroots the right to choose their leaders. That is why we are saying that Wamakko is no different from the G-7,” he added.
Also, former Governor Shekarau who made known his position known in an exclusive interview with the Sunday Trust in September, said any PDP governor coming into the party would not be allowed to impose conditions that can have the potency of placing the existing party structure at his whims and caprice.
“If a governor comes into APC today and wants the structure of the party in his state to be handed over to him, we may have to critically look at it. This is because there are structures on ground in the states before such a governor came in,” he said.
“It is not possible to ignore this reality when you are discussing the terms under which a new person is coming into the party, else there could be confusion,” he added.
Shekarau also was not present at the Kano State government house last Thursday, when General Buhari led other chieftains of the APC to woo Governor Rabi’u Musa Kwankwaso into their fold, a development that political observers interpreted to his disapproval of the planned decamping of Kwankwaso into the APC, especially because of his position as one of the leaders of the state chapter.
The leadership of the APC had in the last three days stormed Sokoto, Kano, Jigawa and Adamawa states to persuade the state governors to decamp from the PDP into the APC.
The move came days after Governor Rabi’u Musa Kwankwaso’s disclosure that one of the options that was opened to the G-7 governors was move into the APC.
But while speaking to Sunday Trust in Sokoto yesterday, Bafarawa said for Governor Aliyu Magatakarda Wamako to be integrated into the APC, he had to register with the party at his ward.
“Let him go there and register for his membership card at the wards and local government up to the national level. So, there is no shortcut whether G7, G14 or G20, you have to follow the due process,” he said.
Bafarawa, who was not at the commissioning ceremony of University of Sokoto, which had General Muhammadu Buhari, Bola Ahmed Tinubu, APC Interim National Chairman Chief Bisi Akande and other APC leaders in attendance, said the G-7 governors will not be allowed to use money to take control of the party.
“We don’t want the party to look like the rich people have it. We want to move away from money politics, we want to give the grassroots the right to choose their leaders. That is why we are saying that Wamakko is no different from the G-7,” he added.
Also, former Governor Shekarau who made known his position known in an exclusive interview with the Sunday Trust in September, said any PDP governor coming into the party would not be allowed to impose conditions that can have the potency of placing the existing party structure at his whims and caprice.
“If a governor comes into APC today and wants the structure of the party in his state to be handed over to him, we may have to critically look at it. This is because there are structures on ground in the states before such a governor came in,” he said.
“It is not possible to ignore this reality when you are discussing the terms under which a new person is coming into the party, else there could be confusion,” he added.
Shekarau also was not present at the Kano State government house last Thursday, when General Buhari led other chieftains of the APC to woo Governor Rabi’u Musa Kwankwaso into their fold, a development that political observers interpreted to his disapproval of the planned decamping of Kwankwaso into the APC, especially because of his position as one of the leaders of the state chapter.
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