‘I’m With Governor Ganduje’– Senator Kabiru Gaya Reacts To Petition To APC Headquarters

Senator Kabiru Gaya, one of the three Kano senators that founded the  All Progressive Congress (APC) Joint Stakeholders Forum  which wrote a petition against the party leadership in Kano, has dissociated himself from the action after admitting he withdrew his membership of the forum.

Gaya, who represents  Kano South, said  on Friday that he would not destroy the party he worked  hard to build.

The senator spoke while answering questions from Journalists  at a press conference in Kano by the newly formed Joint National Assembly Caucus in the state.

 The caucus was responding to the recent petition written to the APC headquarters by the forum led by Senator Ibrahim Shekarau and Sen Barau Jibril representing Kano Central and Kano North respectively.

He told journalists that he appealed to the other senators not to engage in fight that would cause confusion in the party, adding that there was no crisis in the party.

He said those who wrote petition against the leadership of the party in the state are free to come back and would be accepted as partners by the state governor, Governor  Abdullahi Umar Ganduje, who he described as the “generalismo” of the party in the state.

He said, “I told them, If we have any grievances, let us go and meet the governor or any relevant person in the state to explain our grievances. We can hold meetings and discuss and resolve it.

“Unfortunately, they have written a letter and made a complain which all of us should sign but I backed out because I was a governor in the state. I know what it takes when there is instability. I will not encourage instability for the governor in the state.

“We need to support our governor, we voted this governor into office. We cannot destroy the house that we built. We should maintain the house that we have built, paint it and make it look better.”

However, while addressing the  press, he explained that the NASS caucus is made up of one Senator and twenty members of the House of Representatives who have written a rejoinder in response to the earlier petition by the forum.

According to him,  the letter , signed by all members of the caucus, was also addressed  to the Chairman Caretaker/Extraordinary Convention Planning Committee (CEPC) of the APC.

He stated further, “contrary to their claim, the APC leadership in Kano State led  by the Executive Governor Dr. Abdullahi Umar Ganduje,  has been consulting all relevant stakeholders (including the  purported Abuja-based petitioners) on virtually every matter in  the management of the affairs of the party in the state.

“In the recently concluded Ward and Local Government  Congresses, Stakeholders meetings were convened, matters  deliberated and subsequently a consensus mode of congress was adopted, which resulted to a successful conduct of free and fair congresses in the 484 wards and 44 Local Governments of  the state.

“We hereby wish to respectfully urge the National Caretaker Committee of our great party (APC) to disregard in its entirety, the claims of the so-called petitioners as they are baseless,unfounded and of no credible effect whatsoever.

“We wish to reiterate our unflinching loyalty, solidarity and total  support to the Mai Mala Buni-led National leadership of our great  party, the APC and the Governor of Kano State, Dr Abdullahi Umar Ganduje.”