former Vice President Atiku Abubakar and former Head of State, Maj. Gen. Muhammadu Buhari (retd.)
The senator representing Kano South
Senatorial District, Kabiru Gaya, appealed to a former Head
of State, Maj.-Gen. Muhammadu Buhari (retd.); and a former Vice
President, Atiku Abubakar, to step down for Governor Rabiu Kwankwaso in
the struggle for the presidential ticket of the All Progressives
Congress.
Gaya, who was also a former governor of Kano State, stated this in an interview with journalists in Abuja.
He said since Buhari and Atiku were elder statesmen, they should allow a younger Kwankwaso to be the candidate of the APC.
Gaya said, “I am not trying to introduce
politics into the situation but we have to tell ourselves the truth.
Governor Kwankwaso was a minister of defence, and now a serving
governor. He was a legislator, once being a deputy speaker of the House
of Representatives.
“He was also Special Adviser to the
President on Dafur. He was a member of the Niger Delta Development
Commission, hence he has the credentials. He is a young man too. He can
work for 18 hours a day.
“I believe that all our elders and
leaders in the APC would support him. If you look at the situation in
other countries, their citizens are going for young people to become
their president.
“Bill Clinton and Barrack Obama for
instance were young men who became president, having youthful hair but
grew grey hair in power because of mainly the external problems that
their country was facing.
“We won’t mind if Kwankwaso is elected
president, he will grow grey hairs in the course of tackling Nigeria’s
internal problems. Look at how he had ensured peace in Kano. He will do
the same for the country, being a former minister of defence.
“As governor, his budget is 75 percent
capital project while 25 percent is for recurrent expenditure. If he can
come to the federal level and replicate that, Nigeria will be very
happy. Kano is the most beautiful state in Nigeria today, both during
the day and at night.”
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