The National Chairman of the ruling All Progressives Congress , Dr Abdullahi Umar Ganduje has recently been in the eye of the storm, as plots to remove him from office thicken.Since August 3, 2023, the former governor of Nigeria’s most populous state – Kano State has occupied the highest administrative seat of Africa’s largest political party. His emergence as the 6th National Chairman of the ruling All Progressives Congress was deftly and smoothly perfected.
Though Ganduje may have the endorsement of many stakeholders, including the National Caucus of the party, the Progressive Governors’ Forum , State Chairmen from the Northwest and some elders and stakeholders from North Central, his emergence was strongly opposed from within and outside the party. In the last eight months on the saddle, the plot to remove him from office got thicker by the day.
His words: “Given the implication of such endorsement in terms of being unjust and unfair to the North Central region and given that the position of the National Chairman is zoned to North Central based on which zoning for leadership of National Assembly was decided, it simply suggests that the PGF has deviated from its traditional role of acting as the conscience of the party.
Ganduje scaled the initial hurdle in Abuja and settled down to work. But, alas, back in his homestead – Kano State — where he held sway for eight years as the executive governor, a series of ferocious attacks were fired against him. This time around the plots were allegedly planned, orchestrated and hatched by the government of his successor, Governor Yusuf Abbas of the New Nigeria Peoples Party to eventually pull the rug off the feet of the APC National Chairmanship.
Determined to cut the political wings and the rising profile of Ganduje, the NNPP-led government commenced a legal battle, and arraigned him in court on April 17 over his involvement in alleged bribery, diversion and misappropriation of public funds to the tune of $413,000 and N1.38billion. The possibility of Ganduje’s exit became heightened when a Kano High Court in an interim order stopped the national chairman from parading himself in that position.But unknown to his political adversaries, Ganduje had on the same day approached a Federal High Court in Kano to seek an order to stop any move against him; a prayer the court expeditiously granted.
Hear him: “They are so concerned that we are battle-ready to take over the government come 2027. They are so concerned that we got the second-highest votes for Mr President and that we will get even higher votes in 2027 to make the contest a walkover.
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