2019: Kwankwaso In Trouble for Eyeing Buhari’s Seat, Faces Suspension

Former Governor Rabiu Musa Kwankwaso is under probe by the Kano state

chapter of the All Progressives Congress (APC) over alleged misconduct
during his condolence visit to Governor Umar Ganduje who lost his mother
recently.

Kwankwaso is accused of using the occasion to begin a subtle campaign for
the Presidency ahead of the 2019 Presidential elections.

The State Chairman of the party, Alhaji Haruna Umar Doguwa, said: “The
state executive committee and elders jointly condemned the character and
texture of Kwankwaso’s condolence visit to Kano and its portent objective
as a launch pad of his presidential ambition which was wholly unfounded”.

He added: “We wish to state categorically that there is no presidential
vacancy in the first place. Our loyalty and commitment is to our able
president Muhammadu Buhari and his policies and programmes”.

At a joint press briefing on Thursday with the acting Chairman of the
elders committee of the party , Alhaji Audu Kirare, Doguwa dissociated the
party from ‘s action.

According to him, the act of thuggery and brazen show of daggers, swords
and other forms of weapons by sponsored hoodlums during Kwankwaso’s
condolence visit was totally unwholesome, abhorrent and condemnable by the
teeming loyal party members.

“The visit and all ugly traits exhibited are available in the social media
domain being circulated for all to verify the nasty utterances that
proofed the clear case of the party indiscipline that trailed the
Kwankwaso condolence visit,” he said.

He pointed out that “Our party would not leave any stone unturned in
ensuring discipline, orderliness and loyalty as prescribed by the
constitution of the party”.

Governor Ganduje and former Governor Kwankwaso have been having supremacy
battle over who controls the state Party machinery. This is even as both
men have denied any brewing cold war.