Kano: We’ll Give Buhari 5m Votes By All Means In 2019 – Ganduje

Governor Abdullahi Ganduje of Kano State has guaranteed President Muhammadu Buhari at least 5 million votes from the state in the 2019 presidential election.

Ganduje, who spoke to journalists in Kano on Monday, said regardless of any obstacle, the APC in the state will deliver the said votes to President Buhari.

“We are planning, and we are working hard to get a minimum of 5 million votes for Buhari in Kano, and we would get it. We are not saying that there would be no obstacles. Of course, there would be obstacles. Politics is about obstacles. But we would get it,” said the governor.

Ganduje also dismissed the marginalization claims lodged by the nPDP faction of the All Progressives Congress (APC) against the main party.

Reports had emerged that some members of the PDP who defected to the APC levelled allegation of marginalisation against the ruling party.

The nPDP members were said to be planning to exit the PDP if their grievances are not addressed.

But reacting to the reports, the governor said, “The Senate President is from the new nPDP. He also has very important committees of the Senate of which he single-handedly approves the chairmen of these committees. That is not marginalization.

“I believe that there must be something underground that we don’t know yet. You know Mr. President is facing a difficult moment… Corruption is fighting back against the system. You’ll soon know why the issue of marginalization is coming up now. You will see that it is not marginalization. It is a case of corruption fighting back.

“Of course, in politics there is always mobility. That is normal. So, it is not the issue of the former governor taking all his own paraphernalia to another party. It is the issue of the former governor, with some few individuals, moving away with him,” he said.