APC Crisis: Choice of Ganduje as APC chair in doubt

Speculations spreading around reveal President Bola Tinubu and Governors of the ruling All Progressives Congress APC may have settled for the immediate-past Governor of Kano state, Dr Abdullahi Ganduje as successor to the erstwhile National Chairman of APC, Senator Abdullahi Adamu have caused ripples within the party.

The National Vice Chairman, Northwest, of the party, Salihu Moh. Lukman was the first to kick against the proposition, describing it as the “height of insensitivity” and “politically suicidal”, some other officials of the party regretted that the president might be toeing the same path as his predecessor, Muhammadu Buhari who had imposed Adamu on the party in the eleventh hour.

A former Special Adviser, Media and Publicity to former President Goodluck Jonathan, Dr Reuben Abati said the corruption allegations against Dr. Ganduje could haunt him in office.

“The position of a party chairman comes with a lot of responsibilities. It is not a place where he can go and be stuffing his babanriga with dollars as he was accused to have done and that matter has run into troubled waters in Kano state. In fact, if he emerges as chairman of the party as speculated, maybe he should not wear babanriga (flowing dress) because once people see him with babanriga in an important position, they will be looking around for nylon bags of dollars”, Abati had stated.

Chairman of the Kano State Public Complaints and Anti-Corruption Commission, Muhuyi Rimingado had a few days ago declared that a forensic analysis has shown that the content of the 2017 viral video which captured Dr Ganduje, allegedly receiving bundles of dollar notes as a bribe from a contractor and stuffing them in his flowing dress was not doctored but real video.

APC Governors who met on Wednesday night at the Imo state Governor’s Lodge in Abuja between 9 pm and 11:15 pm were rumored to have agreed on the choice of Ganduje.