The National Chairman of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC), Abdullahi Umar Ganduje, has told Senator Rabiu Kwankwaso to return to the ruling APC.
Ganduje, who was Kwankwaso deputy in the two terms that the NNPP leader governed Kano from 1999-2003 and between 2011 and 2015, revealed this in a chat with some media organizations in Kano on Saturday night.
Kwankwaso had dumped the APC for the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) before moving to the New Nigerian People Party (NNPP), where he contested the 2023 Presidential election.
The former Kano state Governor said now that he is in charge of the party affairs, Kwankwaso can rejoin the ruling party.
The APC Chairman said “Nobody will say Kwankwaso is not a good politician, at least he was a two-term Kano Governor, although in disrupted tenures, he was Minister of Defence, even though he doesn’t know what is defense, and was once a Senator, even though he never said anything throughout his stay in the party.
“But, if he is willing to decamp to APC, our door is open, especially now that someone from his state is the party Chairman, it will be easier for him to lobby,” he added.
Ganduje said the appointment of Kwankwaso as minister issue was first heard from the same kwa, and not Tinubu himself.
“It is true that President Tinubu has promised to run a unity government, and he stood by his words. Nyesom Wike from the PDP is now a Ministerial nominee. But he [Kwankwaso] is the one who said he will be given appointment initially, and not the President himself,” Ganduje added.
The hitherto political allies, however, parted ways during the first tenure of Ganduje as Kano Governor.
