January 26, (THEWILL) – Kano State Governor, Abba Yusuf, has reacted to the invitation extended to him by the National Chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Dr Abdullahi Ganduje, asking him to join the party.
Ganduje had on Thursday, invited the Governor, his aides and other members of his party, the NNPP, to join the APC to boost the party’s membership in Kano State.
The APC National Chairman said the decision to invite Governor Yusuf and other members of the NNPP in the state was part of the resolutions of the expanded Kano State APC stakeholders’ meeting held in Kano.
“We, stakeholders of the APC in Kano State, have resolved to invite the Governor of Kano State, his officials and his party, the NNPP, to join our great party, the APC.
“Our party’s doors are wide open to receive you and all other members of the NNPP into the APC and we are creating an enabling environment for you to join our party,” he said.
Ganduje said that many Senators and members of the House of Representatives had joined the party, and that very soon, some Governors would also join, asking, “If we can do it at the national level, why can’t we do it at the state level.”
But speaking through his Director-General, Media and Publicity, Sunusi Bature Dawakin Tofa, on BBC Hausa Service monitored in Kano this morning, Yusuf said he had yet to be contacted on the issue of joining the APC.
“We learned about the invitation on social media, but Dr Ganduje, as a former governor and former deputy governor, knows, more than any other person, how to send a message to an incumbent Governor appropriately,” he said.
Dawakin Tofa said the Governor had not taken any position on whether to leave his party, the NNPP, or not, “but as we learned about the issue on social media, we left it there.”
Tongues are already wagging in the State over the workability or otherwise of Dr Ganduje, Sen. Rabiu Kwankwaso, NNPP National Leader and leader of the Kwankwasiyya political movement, and Governor Yusuf, who is Kwankwaso’s Political godson, to belong to the same political party, having been in a protracted political rivalry spanning several years.
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Abdullahi Yusuf is a seasoned journalist, communicator and was previously the Deputy Editor-In-Chief and Zonal Manager, News Agency of Nigeria, NAN, Jos, where he retired on December 15, 2021
