A former governor of Kano State, Dr Abdullahi Umar Ganduje, has been tipped as the national chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Daily Trust reported.
Ganduje, 73, was yesterday at the Presidential Villa, Abuja, where he met with President Bola Ahmed Tinubu and three governors who are members of the APC.
Barring any last-minute changes, the former governor will be named as interim national chairman of the ruling party, pending the conduct of the convention of the party later in the year.
Recall that this paper had exclusively reported on Monday the resignation of Senator Abdullahi Adamu as the party’s national chairman.
Adamu, following a plot to edge him out, tendered his resignation on Sunday. The national secretary, Iyiola Omisore, has also resigned.
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Former governor of Kano State, Abdullahi Ganduje, has refuted claims that his administration obtained a N10 billion loan for the installation of Closed Circuit Television (CCTV) cameras in the state’s metropolitan area.
Ganduje’s media aide, Muhammad Garba, dismissed the allegations in a report attributed to a Civil Society Organisation (CSO), as baseless and the product of his adversaries’ imagination.
According to Garba, the Coalition of Political Analysis Forum and Governance, responsible for the report, was contracted to undermine the credibility of the former government by demanding an investigation into the alleged misappropriation of funds earmarked for the CCTV project.
Ganduje, Yuguda, MACBAN Meet Herders Over Insecurity, Welfare
The Miyetti Allah Cattle Breeders Association of Nigeria (MACBAN) on Monday in Abuja met with some former governors and other stakeholders in order to address challenges facing pastoralists in Nigeria.
Speaking at the meeting, the former Governor of Kano State, Dr Umar Ganduje, said herders must benefit from enabling environment to be provided by the federal government.
“We are requesting the government provide an enabling environment that is a sustainable livestock production reform. If herdsmen can agree to a modern system of livestock production, there is a need for settlement and settlement requires land and after being resettled, there are other services provided to the communities of herdsmen,” he said.