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Oliver Okpala, senior special assistant on public enlightenment to the National Chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Abdullahi Umar Ganduje, has told Governor Abba Yusuf Kabir that his plots to destroy the monumental legacies recorded by his predecessor in Kano State would fail.
Ganduje and the New Nigeria Peoples Party-led (NNPP) Kano State Government have been involved in a fierce and atrocious battle since the conduct of the 2023 governorship election, a development that has led to the current emirate tussle.
Speaking with newsmen in Abuja on the relentless war the governor, and by extension, the presidential candidate of the NNPP, Rabiu Musa Kwankwaso, have staged against Ganduje, Okpala warned that they would not succeed in their plots.
He equally took a swipe on those he described as characters masquerading as APC North Central stakeholders, alleging that they were paid agents by the leadership of the NNPP.
On Ganduje’s travails in the hands of his detractors in Kano, Okpala said: “Every government in power has its own leadership style. If this is the style Governor Abba Yusuf wants to adopt in Kano, it is left for the people of the state to judge if what he did is just and in their interest.
“Government is a continuum. When Ganduje was in power, he did his best and the people of Kano State can testify to that. He left some legacies that cannot be equaled. What Ganduje has done in Kano cannot be destroyed overnight by political malice from any quarter. This is because what he left in Kano are monumental legacies.“For somebody to wake up overnight and try to destroy or dismantle all the legacies left behind by Ganduje is to say the least, a kind of disservice to the people of Kano State.”But, if he says that is the leadership line his government wants to toe, it is left for him. The people will, at a later stage, judge between him and Ganduje, who meant well for them.”
Reacting to the antics of some North Central stakeholders of the APC, the SSA said: “Those also clamouring for Ganduje’s removal under the guise of representing the North Central are agents of the NNPP, mobilised and induced financially to undermine Ganduje’s name, honour and integrity.
“When the real leaders and stakeholders of the North Central led by a former President of the Senate paid a solidarity visit to the party headquarters and asked Ganduje to continue in office most of these political mercantile agents were not seen because they are inconsequential in the political equation of North Central politics.
“The leaders said though the slot was zoned to them, they, however, asked Ganduje to continue in office because of the excellent ways he was piloting the affairs of the party. When that took place in broad daylight, nothing was heard from these political lilliputians.
“So, nobody should be left in doubt that their actions are a justification of the money they were given to prosecute the ‘Ganduje-must-go agenda,” he fumed.
Okpala also lambasted the former National Vice Chairman of the party, Salihu Lukman, for being a meddlesome interloper in the affairs of the APC.
“A similar issue that should be brought into focus is that of a former National Vice Chairman of the party, who has resigned his position in the party, and is now threatening to take the APC to court if Ganduje is not removed.
“One wonders under which platform or locus he wants to prosecute his case? This is someone, who on a daily basis, abuses the government of the day, of his supposed party on national papers, discrediting the leaders and still wants the leaders to listen to him.
“One wonders what he forgot in the party that he wants Ganduje and the party leaders to pay him for. People should please allow the party and the leadership under Ganduje to breath since they are doing well and winning political heavy weights from other parties because of their performance.
“Ganduje, from all indications, means well for the party, and he is working tirelessly to ensure the APC occupies an Olympic position in the country’s orbit of partisan politics. He will not be distracted,” Okpala warned.
