Kano APC: Congress Taking Place Despite Consensus – Shaaban Sharada
POLITICS DIGEST– A Faction of All Progressives Congress in Kano loyal to President Muhammadu Buhari has kicked against the concensus executives by some stakeholders of the party loyal to governor Abdullahi Ganduje.
It would be recalled that a consensus executives was agreed to be adopted in a party stakeholders meeting at Kano Government House.
The governor made the announcement in a statement by his Chief Press Secretary Abba Anwar that ward, local and state congresses will take place through consensus.
But in a swift reaction, some party members loyal to APC Buhari Support group has rejected consensus insisting that party congresses must hold in the state, they alleged that “Its a party affair, the statement should have come out from the Secretary of the party not the governor’s spokesman” said a chieftain of the party.
POLITICS DIGEST learnt that some aggrieved stakeholders of the party were neither consulted nor agreed to consensus.
Credible sources told this paper that Governor Ganduje has lodged the three Man committee sent from party headquarters to sell the congress forms for contestants in a hotel in kano instead of allowing them to sell the forms at the state headquaters of APC in the state.
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It was also learnt that the Governor has purchased more than 13,000 nomination forms in a move to block APC aggrieved members from getting access to it.
Unknown to the governor, the APC Buhari support group and Hon. Shaaban Sharada has already purchased the remaining forms and distributed it to their loyalists at 484 wards in kano across the 44 local government.
This development has generated controversies between close associate of the governor and the three man committee sent from Abuja, threatening them not to sell the form to any member of the party apart from the governor.
When contacted by this paper, the member representing Kano Municipal Constituency in the House of Representatives Hon. Shaaban Sharada has said that he is not aware about the consensus. “As the serving member representing one of the populous constituency in the state, i was neither consulted about the so called meeting of the consensus.
We bought the nomination forms for our people and the Congress is taking place in the 484 wards of the state.
You can go round and see for yourself”. He said
The Chairman of APC Buhari Support Group, Shehu Dalhatu, said “Concensus can only take place when the majority members of the party agreed to it.
Since some members don’t want consensus, Congress should take place”.
This paper reliably gathered that there is ongoing congress by some members of the party loyal to APC Buhari Support Group in the 484 wards of the state.
An indication that all is not well within the party.
