beopened:
OP is a foolish being....twisting the article to suit his sinister agenda


As much as you try to create problem where there was none between Buhari and Kwankwaso,you will keep failing

Buhari spent considerable time in Kano before,during and after his rally to even commission projects done by Kwankwaso

Also,if you were not blind....you will notice that Kwankwaso sat besides Buhari and Prof Osibanjo during his Media address about the certificate issue

Finally nobody born of a woman as at today can stand between Buhari and millions of votes to be cast from the North..........The Northern masses are even the ones fighting for Buhari's cause almost to the point of death......a situation that even calls for worry

No Governor can dare speak evil of or work against Buhari in the North.......notice that it is only the Southern thugs like Fayose that is currently barking



Moreso in 2011 when Kwankwaso was not even in APC,Buhari garnered 1,624,543 votes in Kano......so Buhari does not need Kwankwaso anywhere in the North not to talk of in Kano

tit:
el rufia will be a better choice.
or atiku.

beopened:
OP is a foolish being....twisting the article to suit his sinister agenda


As much as you try to create problem where there was none between Buhari and Kwankwaso,you will keep failing

Buhari spent considerable time in Kano before,during and after his rally to even commission projects done by Kwankwaso

Also,if you were not blind....you will notice that Kwankwaso sat besides Buhari and Prof Osibanjo during his Media address about the certificate issue

Finally nobody born of a woman as at today can stand between Buhari and millions of votes to be cast from the North..........The Northern masses are even the ones fighting for Buhari's cause almost to the point of death......a situation that even calls for worry

No Governor can dare speak evil of or work against Buhari in the North.......notice that it is only the Southern thugs like Fayose that is currently barking



Moreso in 2011 when Kwankwaso was not even in APC,Buhari garnered 1,624,543 votes in Kano......so Buhari does not need Kwankwaso anywhere in the North not to talk of in Kano

okpoewa:
GEN. BUHARI TO STEP DOWN FOR GOV. KWANKWASO

It appears things are falling apart in the All Progressives Congress resulting to which the centre can no longer hold for the change camp. This was revealed during the flag off campaign of the Party in Kano State when Gen. Muhammadu Buhari publicly refused to present the party’s flag to Alhaji Umar Ganduje during his campaign rally at the Kano Township stadium recently.  Ganduje who is the incumbent Deputy Governor of Kano State and candidate of the All Progressives Party for the gubernatorial polls is alleged to have been single-handedly selected by Governor Rabiu Musa Kwankwaso against the wish of other stakeholders of the party in Kano thereby provoking the disapproval of Gen. Buhari and fractionalizing the party. This clear show of the general’s refusal to recognize Gov. Kwankwaso’s anointed only fuelled the extant frosty relation between Gen. Buhari and Gov. Kwankwaso forcing the General’s camp to also accuse Gov. Kwankwaso of being a mole in the APC, working steadily for the PDP. According to them, Kwankwaso masterminded the certificate scandal now threatening to tear down whatever is left of the General’s integrity. Insiders to the blossoming Kano crisis suggest that Kwankwaso may have exposed Buhari as part of a wider plot to seek his replacement. The plot, according to insiders, is that Kwankwaso is angling for Buhari to step down on account of the scandal so that he would take over as the presidential candidate having placed second in the primary election of the party.

Meanwhile, Gen. Buhari is said to be very uncomfortable, and irate, with the deafening noise of the Kwankwasiyya movement, which members are said to be already over stretching as though he has been replaced by their principal, Kwankwaso. In fact it is revealed that the crowd that graced the APC rally had actually massed in anticipation that Buhari would announce his withdrawal from the race and replacement with Kwankwaso only to be disappointed which provoked the irate youths to charge at the General’s campaign train. In the process the men of the DSS attached to the campaign train successfully chased the youths away but not without some people however suffering injuries as well as some of security personnel. In fact, a vehicle carrying the DSS officials had its windshield smashed with tones causing bodily harm on the occupants. Six of the occupants were rushed to a nearby hospital. Four of them who sustained minor injuries were treated and discharged immediately. Another two, a lady and a man, who had deep cuts on their heads, were however admitted for further care and it was yet to be confirmed that the minor cases have left the hospital as at the time of filing this report. But the seriously wounded officers are to be flown back to Abuja for further treatment as soon as possible.

Be that as it may, Efforts being made to resolve the crisis have been greeted by a brick wall with the rigid position of Buhari who believes that without him the APC is only an empty shell while Gov. Kwankwanso on his part believes that without his followers in Kano State the Buhari presidential ambition is as good as dead. Ominously, observers smell deja vu as Party leaders are afraid that the tragedy that befell Buhari’s former party, the defunct CPC, will become the fate of APC due to Buhari’s highhandedness. It would be recalled that even as Mohammed Abacha was the popular candidate for Kano governorship race under CPC Buhari opted for Jafaar Isa, a retired soldier like himself. In the end, the party lost the 2011 election woefully. Buhari has even threatened to go it all alone and damn what he termed as “the sabotage of fifth columnists”.

Nevertheless, the party’s leader, Bola Tinubu, has commendably used his control of the media to paper over the cracks and keep the crisis out of press light though it is not sure for how long this may hold. More so, the Kwankwasiyya adherents are also mindful of Buhari’s health and are apprehensive of the toll a strenuous campaign schedule is taking on him. In response, Buhari’s loyalists are also blaming Kwankwaso and his group for insights into Buhari’s health. But spokesman of the Buhari Campaign Organization, Malam Shehu Garba, has posited that the situation was not as it is painted stating on a telephone chat that the crowd at the stadium may have hindered Ganduje’s approach to the podium to collect the flag.  In his words, the crowd was so much that the party leaders had to hurriedly end the programme to avoid casualties. Though he confirmed that no less than 40 persons fainted at the stadium and had to be stretchered out, he however said the party members are 100 per cent behind Buhari. “Nothing takes the support away from him. The party is 100 per cent behind Buhari. Our leaders showed rare courage to have come out to be with him on that day. The crowd was massive that movement was difficult. So, it is not impossible that the candidate was hindered from reaching the podium by the crowd”, he said.

On the other hand, The  National Coordinator of Concerned APC Stakeholders, Alhaji Bashir Mohammed, Confirming the schism while addressing newsmen on Thursday 22nd January 2015 in Abuja said the crisis which has already polarised the party along loyalty lines is as a result of the high handedness, viciousness and undemocratic posture of the presidential candidate. He alleged that Gen. Buhari has refused to recognize any other power bloc within the party especially the Kwankwasiya movement which is acclaimed to be one of the biggest blocs in the party nationwide and thereby forcing other members of the party to scamper for greener pasture elsewhere. Mohammed said: “Political watchers have attributed his refusal to handover the party’s flag to the state governorship aspirant, Alhaji Umar Ganduje during the just concluded presidential rally, as a fall out of this feud as he was not disposed to Ganduje ‘ s emergence owing to the latter’s membership of the Kwankwasiya.” This rivalry many believe has been in existence since the founding of the APC where legacy members of the party were not comfortable with the newcomers whom they claimed had come to take their place. It has also been gathered that the lack of trust between Kwankwaso and Buhari may also stem from the latter’s comments in 2010 when he called the General “A Serial Coupist”.  According to Mohammed, Buhari’s behaviour has brought about irreconcilable divisions within the party. He said Buhari had refused to recognise Ganduje because he was not the retired general’s choice for the ticket and warned he has once again used his hands to destroy whatever votes he was counting on Kano APC to deliver to him as many have gone their ways.

While reminding the four time presidential aspirant of the Congress for Progressive Change (CPC), experience “where he forced one of his loyalists Col. Ja’faar on the people even as Mohammed Abacha was the preferred candidate, which cost him the elections”, Mohammed further explained that the attempt by Buhari to always reward those who helped him in plotting coup in the army with every given opportunity is not acceptable to anybody in the Kwankwasiya movement in particular and Nigeria in general.” Speaking further the party stalwart added that the divisions within the party caused by the ‘Buhariyyas’ as they are fondly termed in the first place should have been avoidable but for the General’s insistence on unpopular issues in a democracy which proves to the whole world that he is not yet ready for the job of governing Nigeria under a rigid constitution and rule of law.

He also blamed the crisis on rumour mongers who begun accusing Kwankwaso of instigating the recent certificate scandal to ensure Buhari is substituted for another northerner which most likely would have been him. He said detractors of the party had already credited Kwankwaso’s usual nocturnal meetings to scheming geared at unseating or eventually betraying Gen. Buhari. He lamented that every attempt to get the national secretariat of the party to intervene has failed which has forced members to believe that the cult-like leadership of the party at Abuja is deceiving Nigerians with change as a slogan and may be up to something terrible at the end of the day. He therefore told Buhari to forget the cooperation of Kano people at the poll as the people have already gone their separate ways except Buhari is substituted with any other candidate before the election proper. It is on this note that some commentators believe that the election postponement proposal can be traced to the APC who tacitly spread it widely through rumors of security risks that have only stirred the natural reaction of fear in the PDP enough for the National Security Adviser to buy into it suggesting the shift. Albeit, as the day comes the intrigue increases and so far one can only hope for nothing but a denouement in favour of the mass.
OKPO EWA ESQ.
LAWYER, ARBITRATOR, LITERATI.
FCT. ABUJA
N.B: Contributions from THE UNION.