(APC) is creating tension in Kano State where the supporters of
Governor Rabiu Kwankwaso and those of former Head of State, Major
General Muhammadu Buhari, have clashed.
The state House of Assembly, dominated by the APC, has broken into two
camps, each supporting Kwankwaso and Buhari.
The governor and former Head of State are leading contenders for the
APC presidential ticket.
Some members of the assembly, under the aegis of G34, had, late last
week, endorsed Kwankwaso for the APC presidential ticket.
But signs that all was not well in the parliament emerged, yesterday,
when a member of the group, Yusuf Abdullahi Atta, dissociated himself
and some of his other colleagues from the endorsement, declaring
support for Buhari.
Kano State Deputy Majority leader, Yusuf Suleiman Babangida, who
disclosed the G 34 endorsement of the state governor, on Thursday,
declared that the current security situation in the country requires a
man with courageous disposition of Kwankwaso to handle. ''The security
of state and it's citizens which is the first obligation that the law
of the land places upon leadership is deteriorating at all levels due
to the collapse of the centre", the lawmaker said.
Babangida, who played a prominent role in the election that brought
Kwankwaso to power in 2011, stated, "We the lawmakers in Kano House
of Assembly, 34 of us precisely, hereby propose our leader, Dr. Rabiu
Musa Kwankwaso, for the office of the President of the Federal
Republic of Nigeria".
Babangida noted that his group's conviction emanated from the fact
that "Kwankwaso is eligible to occupy the office of the President,''
saying, ''We therefore consider this aspiration as the taste of every
progressive mind who has concerns over the state of the nation. "
In a sudden twist, yesterday, Atta, representing Fagge local
government in the assembly, distanced himself and some of Buhari's
loyalists during a popular radio political programme "Kowane Gauta".
The lawmaker, during the political programme aired by a private
station declared that Babangida's statement did not enjoy his support
and urged Buhari loyalists to remain calm.
''For now, Kano has no candidate other than Gen. Buhari for presidency
by 2015; anything short of this popular arrangements remain a deceit",
he said.
Atta, during the pay per second radio political programme, whose
listeners cut across seven states in the North-west, affirmed that
Kano would only consider any other option outside Buhari except he
stepped down his ambition.
Buhari and Kwankwaso have large but disciplined and fanatical
supporters in the state who are emotional about the 2015 presidential
dream of their principals.
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