Former Kano State governor,
Senator Rabi’u Musa Kwankwaso, was absent at the state’s All Progressives
Congress (APC) congress, which held on Saturday.
However, the two other lawmakers
from the state, Senator Kabiru Ibrahim Gaya (Kano South) and Senator Barau
Jibril (Kano North), attended the congress which was held at the Sani Abacha
Indoor Stadium.
Alhaji Abdullahi Abbas, who had
been running the affairs of the party in interim capacity, emerged as the
substantive chairman.
Before the elections began, a
representative of the national leadership of the party, Prince Nwoko Orinze,
said they were in the state to ensure that the election was conducted
appropriately.
“The congress was organised to
fill the vacant seats,” he said.
However, the Umar Haruna
Doguwa-led faction of the APC in the state, rejected the congress, describing
it as a “kangaroo exercise”.
“What the Abdullahi Abbas-led
faction of the party did today (yesterday) was nothing but a kangaroo congress
because the party’s national leadership did not give the go-ahead to anybody to
conduct congress in the state.
“I am the one recognised as
chairman of the APC in Kano by the national leadership and if the party decides
to hold a congress in Kano, it will write to me and there was no directive to
that effect. And, I can tell you that no state in the federation held congress
today. A date will be fixed for the congress and a letter will be sent to all
state chairmen to hold it,” he told Daily Trust.
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