₦airaland Forum

GoodLife4live:
bro..SOWORE is right about you guys...you are trying to misinterpret the electoral law ...the law talk say you fit challenge forge. Certificate before election not after the election.... In other not to distract the elected official

...... to Kwankwasiyya

A former Kano State deputy governor and 2023 governorship candidate of the All Progressives Congress, APC, Nasir Yusuf Gawuna, is now the most sought-after politician in Kano as President Bola Tinubu directed some top party leaders to stop his planned defection to the Kwankwasiyya movement and ultimately African Democratic Congress, ADC.

Mr Gawuna’s plan to align with Senator Rabiu Kwankwaso to unseat Governor Abba Yusuf in 2027 is gaining currency in Kano. While the move is causing a stir in the APC, the Kwankwasiyya camp is agog over the defection plan.

Party insiders told this newspaper that Mr Gawuna has been largely unreachable in recent days, fueling speculation about ongoing political consultations outside the country. Efforts by key stakeholders within the APC to reach him have reportedly been unsuccessful.

Sources disclosed that Mr Gawuna travelled to Saudi Arabia during Ramadan to perform the lesser hajj (Umrah). However, days after the end of the holy month, he has yet to return to Nigeria. A source familiar with his movements said the former deputy governor subsequently proceeded on a private vacation to a North African country.

According to the source, Mr Gawuna placed his phone on “Do Not Disturb” mode to avoid mounting pressure and persistent calls from the party leaders seeking to stop his defection.

Mr Gawuna’s political move has rattled the Kano APC, prompting Governor Abba Yusuf to seek presidential support to persuade him not to leave the party.

Although details of the governor’s outreach remain unclear, insiders said Mr Tinubu had delegated a powerful senator from Zamfara State as well as a presidential adviser to lead the lobby.

According to one insider, the party is considering offering Mr Gawuna an automatic ticket for the Kano Central Senatorial District in the 2027 elections if he agrees to remain within its fold.

“The president is concerned about Gawuna’s defection plan. He is made to understand that not only Governor Yusuf’s second term ambition is at stake but the president’s support base in Kano,” said a source familiar with the presidential directive.

Pundits believe that Mr Gawuna is currently the most formidable governorship aspirant who can neutralize incumbency factor and further divide Kano APC during governorship and presidential elections.

“If Kwankwaso gives Gawuna governorship ticket, it will be a game over. Gawuna has a large support base among the youth, the ulama and business community. Apart from this, the APC will be further divided as most of the traditional supporters of the party will vote for Gawuna. So if you merge Gawuna’s political capital with Kwankwaso’s commanding support base, it will be a landslide win,” said a political pundit, Aminu Bashir.

Mr Gawuna, who polled over 800,000 votes in the 2023 governorship election, is reportedly undermined and relegated by his party. “It is baffling for APC to appoint someone who worked against his party as minister and then relegate someone who polled over 800,000 votes to a board chairman,” said an APC stalwart who preferred not to be named.

The supporters of the former deputy governor had been grumbling over what they perceive as his marginalisation within the APC since he lost election in 2023, and that he has not been considered for major federal appointments or strategic party roles.

There are also concerns among his loyalists regarding the reported non-payment of his entitlements as a former deputy governor by the state government, despite earlier call by a certain political figure for such obligations to be settled.

Thundafireseun:
What goes around will surly come back around….

El Rufai should be walking around with cuffs

Tolumiide:
Anyone that's still doubting that Tinubu would win the next election

WorldRichest:
Shey this boy called Fubara no dey hear word ni? No 2nd term for him, abi he no wan finish this him 1st and last term ni? He better tell this boy wey dey bear same surname with him not to put him into trouble. We no send am oooo, we will lock him up and Heaven will not fall. This 2027 will be brutal

raumdeuter:
1. Obi from Apga to PDP to LP to ADC
2. Gbadebo Rhodes-Vivour from Kowa to PDP to LP to ADC
3. Atiku from PDP to AC to PDP to APC to PDP to ADC
4. Nnamdi Kanu from APGA Member to PDP surrogate supporting Jonathan and calling for indivisible Nigeria to Biafra or death to Mazi Sokoto prison
5. Obidients generally

Bonus Dino Melaye. Who pretends to be sick, climbs on a tree, makes himself a court jester and musician

Difrent:
I no green with dis your explanation but you are entitled to your own opinion just like I am to mine. Age falsification, certificate forgery etc should be pre election matters and not used to clog the election tribunal, better still make a criminal case at a proper court

nedu666:
So people were not moving between enugu and onitsha until tinubu came

The All Progressives Congress, APC Youth Advocate and Director-General, Youth Jagaban Network, Umar Jijiwa, has alleged that the party’s convention organizers are keeping aspirant nomination forms for those already in power.

Jijiwa made this allegation on Tuesday when he featured in an interview on ‘Prime Time’, a programme on Arise Television.

The organizers of the APC National Convention had reportedly said that the aspirant nomination forms have been exhausted.

Reacting to the development, Jijiwa said, “APC National Working Committee nomination forms were not issued to us after payment because they are being kept for those already in power.

“They are not sharing these forms with anyone outside the team. They’re for the same team members who want to remain in power.

“It’s not about candidates that were favoured. No. It’s the people that are there that gave forms to themselves that they are going to continue there. It’s not that there’s no room for other people. They anointed themselves.

“We paid, but then you did not give us form. Why? Because you only did one form, and you give it to the same person that is already there, that also has interest to stay there. That is what happened, not that there’s somebody anointed from outside.”

lionofafrica12:
If he joins ADC, he ends his political career. He can never become the President of Nigeria. He needs a party with a widespread to become the president of Nigeria.

Sannisege:
Kwakwanso wey dem don clip him wings. Kwankwanso’s political kingdom has been turned to shreds.

erad:
We're now putting rumors and speculations on frontpage?

Seun, is this how low your forum has sunk?

highchief1:
he never told u he must rule.he mustn't.we actually don’t know those that will even be alife by 2027.but it’s important to rule ur world while you are still alive.i love how wike isn’t a hypocrite.he just told u he didn’t enter politics to be a contractor.he entered for power.and Weda u like his face or not,as at today,wike is the second most powerful person in Nigeria after tinubu.

merrymike47:
The best Wike will get is that ministerial position he holds right now, he'll never rule Nigeria. Write this down and save it for later.

Difrent:
This is a lie , stop misleading people.
What the new electoral act did is say certificate forgery is a pre election matter and should be trashed pre election, abi wetin you dey look while your opponent present a forged certificate, if you dull yourself and your opponent got elected through a forged certificate, then use anti forgery law on them, and not clog election tribunal with matters that should have been trashed pre election .
Even in the old law, Who has ever gotten sacked for certificate forgery? Nobody
Even the Bayelsa case, the votes of the offender was simply transferred to the opponent

Burob:
Forever Wailing, Always Wailing.

Burob:
U dey mind that Ofunaofu?