Vice-Presidential Candidate of the National Democratic Congress in the 2027 election, Senator Rabiu Kwankwaso, says former governors Ibrahim Shekarau and Abdullahi Ganduje, as well as incumbent Governor Abba Yusuf, are politically finished in the state.\n<\/p>\n
Kwankwaso stated this while reflecting on the political fortunes of former members of his political family who had fallen out with him.\n<\/p>\n
While featuring on the News Agency of Nigeria Personality Interview Series on Sunday in Abuja, he described as unsustainable any political success built through \u201ctreachery\u201d.\n<\/p>\n
The former Kano State governor further said that his experience over the past two and a half decades had shown that those who betrayed their political allies usually went into political oblivion.<\/p>\n
\u201cYou cannot succeed with treachery. I have not seen one. Now we have taken about two and a half decades.\n<\/p>\n
\u201cIf I ask you, I\u2019m sure you don\u2019t know; he is going into oblivion politically. He is nowhere,\u201d Kwankwaso said, referring to one of his erstwhile political associates.\n<\/p>\n
He specifically cited Ganduje, who served as his deputy for eight years before succeeding him as governor in 2015, and what he called his dwindling political fortunes.<\/p>\n
According to him, Ganduje\u2019s political career would have been better had he maintained the political structure they both built together, describing the former governor\u2019s current situation as a consequence of his decision to part ways with him.\n<\/p>\n
\u201cIf you can even see the issue of Ganduje, who we came together and supported, and became governor free of charge. The day when he started fighting was the beginning of his problem. If I may ask: where is he now? It is difficult to see him,\u201d he said.\n<\/p>\n
Kwankwaso said Ganduje could have commanded greater respect in Kano and beyond had he remained committed to the political structure, adding that the former governor now had significant political challenges.\n<\/p>\n
He also criticised Governor Abba Yusuf for allegedly abandoning those who worked for his emergence as governor.\n<\/p>\n
Kwankwaso said the choice of Yusuf as his preferred candidate was based partly on the need to avoid a repeat of what he described as Ganduje\u2019s actions.\n<\/p>\n
\u201cAbba Yusuf: we went down, right down, to make sure that we picked the right person who would not go and repeat what Ganduje had done.\n<\/p>\n
\u201cMembers of my political group worked day and night to field Yusuf in the 2019 governorship election, which Yusuf won before the result was overturned through litigation,\u201d he stated.<\/p>\n
He said the same political structure returned in 2023 and successfully secured Yusuf\u2019s election as governor, despite attempts to deploy similar tactics against the party. <\/p>\n
Kwankwaso, however, said Yusuf had since distanced himself from the political camp that brought him to power.\n<\/p>\n
\u201cHe left us, but he is not with Ganduje now. He is in-between because I don\u2019t think he is happy for anybody to call him Dan Gandujiyya,\u201d he said.\n<\/p>\n
He said Yusuf\u2019s decision to allow himself to be publicly identified with Ganduje had also created political difficulties for him.\n<\/p>\n
Kwankwaso further alleged that Yusuf was now attempting to supplant him as the dominant political figure in Kano, despite his continued influence in the state.\n<\/p>\n
\u201cPeople have no patience and that is why they are making those mistakes. It is just a matter of patience,\u201d he said.\n<\/p>\n
The former governor said the struggle for political succession and control was not peculiar to Kano, describing it as a recurring feature of Nigerian politics.<\/p>\n
He recalled a conversation with President Bola Tinubu in which the President asked him to go and reconcile some political differences with Ganduje.\n<\/p>\n
Kwankwaso said he responded by drawing attention to the fate of several politicians who had once been close political associates of the President but were no longer prominent in his political circle.\n<\/p>\n
He cited former Lagos State Deputy Governor Kofoworola Bucknor-Akerele and former Governor Akinwunmi Ambode as examples.\n<\/p>\n
\u201cI told him that when I come here, I don\u2019t see Bucknor. When I come here, I don\u2019t see Ambode. I started counting the people,\u201d he said.\n<\/p>\n
Kwankwaso, who said that his experience had shown the transient nature of political relationships, added that political colleagues could become distant in spite of having worked closely together before.\n<\/p>\n
Kwankwaso, however, singled out former Osun Governor, Chief Bisi Akande, as one of the few political associates he still regarded as a friend.\n<\/p>\n
He said political relationships often resembled those formed in school, where former classmates could maintain bonds in spite of differences in their political careers.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s not very peculiar to Kano, but I think the Kano experience is special out of the general lots,\u201d Kwankwaso said. (NAN)\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Vice-Presidential Candidate of the National Democratic Congress in the 2027 election, Senator Rabiu Kwankwaso, says former governors Ibrahim…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":301179,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[45],"tags":[2194,4968,26928,6428,18731,33914,9379,122,9287,40234,4970],"class_list":["post-381758","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nigeria","tag-2027-election","tag-abba-yusuf","tag-abdullahi-ganduje","tag-ibrahim-shekarau","tag-kano-politics","tag-kwankwasiyya","tag-ndc","tag-nigeria","tag-nigerian-politics","tag-political-betrayal","tag-rabiu-kwankwaso"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@africa\/117109406177955539","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/381758","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=381758"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/381758\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/301179"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=381758"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=381758"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=381758"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}