“If being a former governor is the yardstick of becoming the leader of a party, then Senator Kabir Gaya should be the leader of APC in Kano, but it is not. Over 90 percent of Shekarau’s supporters are with us and as such his defection won’t make any difference in the political calculation of Kano State.” Meanwhile, National Assembly members of the defunct ANPP from Kano, who are now in APC, have said they would not be following Shekarau into PDP. Senator Kabiru Ibrahim Gaya told Daily Trust he had earlier pleaded with Shekarau not to leave the APC because that is where he belongs. “He left contrary to the advice of his people. He is alone and he is on his own because nobody went with him. Only one member of the State House of Assembly followed (him). All of us in the National Assembly are in the APC,” Gaya said. Gaya also said he was too “big” to follow Shekarau to the PDP because Shekarau met him in the defunct ANPP. “May be he (Shekarau) likes being in the opposition because soon PDP will become opposition in Nigeria,” Gaya added. The 11 House of Representatives APC members from Kano also re-affirmed their allegiance to APC. “We wish to make it categorically clear today that, we are not leaving the APC for any political party. We have sacrificed a lot and have come a long way in the struggle to emancipate our people from the bondage of PDP misrule,” the Kano APC Reps caucus said at a news conference in Abuja yesterday. “(We) will not look back, or backtrack, we will not look sideways, we will not leave our beloved APC for anything else,” said the caucus, in a jointly issued document read to journalists by Rep Abdurrahman Kawu Sumaila. They urged the APC leadership to remain transparent and provide a level-playing field to all party members. Other lawmakers in the caucus are Tijjani Abdulkadir Jobe, Usman Adamu Gaya, Haruna Musa Fatahi, Muhammad Sani Rano, Lawan Shehu Bichi, Abdulsalam Adamu, Badamasi Ayuba Danbatta, Nasir Baballe Ila and Nasir Ali Ahmed.
Posted on: Fri, 31 Jan 2014 12:41:42 +0000
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