Kwankwanso Not Finished In Kano Despite Defections, Loses

By Supo Giwa

Despite the defection of several of his loyalists, political stakeholders are dismissing insinuations that the immediate past governor of Kano State, Senator Rabiu Kwankwanso is finished politically.

Successive political losses including defeats at the tribunals and defections it is claimed, had taken the wind of the sail of Senator Kwankwanso and his Kwankwansiya Movement. The group once dictated the pace and pattern of politics in Kano.

Besides the loss by his protégée in the Kano State governorship election, several of his associates including the immediate past chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Suleiman Bichi have defected from his camp.

Remarkably, Bichi was one of the key facilitators of the Kwankwansiya Movement upon which Kwankwanso’s politics revolved in Kano and the rest of the country.

Also among the defectors was Kwankwanso’s spokeswoman, Hajiya Binta Spikin and a number of former government officials.

Abdullahi Abbas, chairman of the APC in Kano State at the reception where Bichi and other PDP defectors were received by Governor Abdullahi Ganduje had pronounced the death of Kwankwansiya, saying:

“Your Excellency, (Abdullahi Ganduje) it is a known fact that Kwankwasiyya was founded by the two of you seated here before us, you and Rabiu Bichi, you the the mother and father of Kwankwasiyya. Now that you have both left it, there is nothing left of Kwankwasiyya again.”

However, sources in Kano say that to the contrary that Kwankwansiya may not be dead as Kwankwanso may only be reinventing waiting for the problems in the APC to build up.

As the source said:
“Very far from it, Kwankwanso is not irrelevant in Kano. In fact, he only has to wait to take the initiative again because the APC is now made up of several strange bed fellows who sooner or later will start their own problems. You have those from PDP, the Ibrahim Shekarau Group, the original APC and others.

“All of them will soon start struggling for supremacy and with that you will see the revival of Kwankwansiya,” the source said.

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