By David Kabiyesi
The National Chairman of All Progressives Congress, Dr. Abdullahi Ganduje has dismissed reports making the rounds that he was instrumental to Rabiu Kwankwaso’s exclusion from president ministerial nominees.
Speaking at a media briefing with some selected media organizations in Kano, Ganduje maintained that the NNPP candidate was never given such a promise in the first place.
“Indeed, President Tinubu has indeed promised to run a unity government, and he stood by his words. Nyesom Wike, from 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,” he said
He then revealed that Kwankwaso is free to join APC if he is ready to decamp from NPP.
“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 there.
“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 said.
