Kano Is Anxious To Push Out Ganduje’s Mess – Kwankwaso

Those who conspired to foist Governor Abdullahi Ganduje for a second term in 2019 as governor of Kano State are now regretting just as the citizenry are increasingly anxious on how to get out of the mess caused by the government, his predecessor, Senator Rabiu Kwankwaso has said.

In an interview with Sunday Punch, Kwankwaso asserted that Ganduje was increasingly getting weaker as his enemies abandon him while his rivals, including the Kwakwasiya Movement were getting stronger.

The newspaper did not indicate when the interview was conducted given recent speculations of a possible reconciliation between both men who were political partners for more than 16 years.

Asked on what happened to have caused the rupture in the once master-servant relationship between him and Ganduje, Kwankwaso said:

“For me, first and foremost, it is human nature, especially those who don’t understand. There are people who think they can never go high unless they destroy the ladder they used to climb. And there is nothing you can do about it, even though we try to manage them because nobody would like to go into an unnecessary fight especially with a government you helped built both at the state and national levels.

“In any case, God is wonderful. I am sure those who are in positions now must be regretting what they have done, especially in Kano. This country is fully aware that Ganduje lost the election in 2019 in Kano, but the powers that be ensured that they imposed him on the majority. They imposed the will of the minority on the majority which is the worst crime in a democracy. I think everybody is paying the price now. I think some of them are trying to correct their mistakes now after the maximum damage made to the state. It is very unfortunate that many people could not see what the masses were seeing. There were reasons he would not have been allowed to contest in 2019, but the powers that be at the time insisted that he should continue. The masses decided to do what the leaders couldn’t do. They still came out to use power that time and those of us who believe in peace didn’t want to start a crisis in Kano.

“We had the capacity to stop them and make sure that they were not allowed to perpetrate injustice, but we told our young men and women to cool down. We went through the courts. Unfortunately, everyone in this country knows what happened which was not good for the people. Courts are the last hope of the weak, but what we saw was really shocking.

“In any case, the eight years is almost gone with a year and some months remaining which would be dedicated to campaigns, and for him (Ganduje), court cases. And God is wonderful. Instead of us being weak, they are the ones getting weaker. Every day, we have people, the masses crossing to our side. Many of them who were below 18 years of age during the last elections, but are now of age, are coming to register with us.

Noting the determination of stakeholders in Kano to pack out what he described as the mess allegedly created by Ganduje, Kwankwaso said:

“People are now asking how to get out of this mess. All the parties should understand that this time round, people will want to vote for their own and not for the leaders’ friends at the top. Anyone who is not accepted by the people is just wasting his time. All those who think they can use INEC and the police in 2023 again to get power are fools because the people are now really ready for change.”

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