Leadership of defunct All Nigerian
Peoples Party (ANPP) in Kano yesterday disassociated itself from the
endorsement of Governor Rabiu Musa Kwankwaso as leader of All
Progressives Congress (APC) in the state.
Kwankwaso was endorsed as APC leader in
the state by a former presidential candidate of the defunct National
Republican Convention (NRC) Alhaji Bashir Othman Tofa who is a chieftain
of the party in the state.
Speaking during a press conference in Shekarau’s residence in Kano, chairman of the defunct ANPP Alhaji Sani Hashim Hotoro said those who paid the homage to Governor Kwankwaso as party leader did so in their own individual capacities and not on behalf of the defunct ANPP.
He said the leader of the delegation that paid the visit to Kwankwaso was an elder in the party who had publically announced that he had quit partisan politics and even declined to serve in the merger committee of the ANPP when he was invited to do so.
He added that members of ANPP in the state have written to APC’s national secretariat conveying their concern and the way forward and are awaiting the response of the national body. He claimed that most of the individuals that paid the homage were signatories to the letter presented to the national headquarters of APC in Abuja.
He said, “It is in the public knowledge that members of the APC coming from the defunct ANPP Kano State, have on December 18 2013 under the leadership of our 2011 presidential candidate and former Governor of Kano State, Malam Ibrahim Shekarau, delivered a letter to the APC interim leadership in Abuja conveying our concern and the way forward. We requested for a clarification of the rumour going round that the five aggrieved new PDP governors who decided to decamp to APC did so as a result of an alleged agreement they reached with section of the APC leadership that they will be given special privileges that are clearly against all fairness and democratic norms. These included state leadership of the party, automatic tickets for all their members of the state and the national assemblies and also handling the registration of members.”
Speaking during a press conference in Shekarau’s residence in Kano, chairman of the defunct ANPP Alhaji Sani Hashim Hotoro said those who paid the homage to Governor Kwankwaso as party leader did so in their own individual capacities and not on behalf of the defunct ANPP.
He said the leader of the delegation that paid the visit to Kwankwaso was an elder in the party who had publically announced that he had quit partisan politics and even declined to serve in the merger committee of the ANPP when he was invited to do so.
He added that members of ANPP in the state have written to APC’s national secretariat conveying their concern and the way forward and are awaiting the response of the national body. He claimed that most of the individuals that paid the homage were signatories to the letter presented to the national headquarters of APC in Abuja.
He said, “It is in the public knowledge that members of the APC coming from the defunct ANPP Kano State, have on December 18 2013 under the leadership of our 2011 presidential candidate and former Governor of Kano State, Malam Ibrahim Shekarau, delivered a letter to the APC interim leadership in Abuja conveying our concern and the way forward. We requested for a clarification of the rumour going round that the five aggrieved new PDP governors who decided to decamp to APC did so as a result of an alleged agreement they reached with section of the APC leadership that they will be given special privileges that are clearly against all fairness and democratic norms. These included state leadership of the party, automatic tickets for all their members of the state and the national assemblies and also handling the registration of members.”
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