The All Progressives Congress (APC) Elders and Integrity Bloc in Kano state have urged President Bola Tinubu and all well-meaning party stakeholders to ignore youths, calling for the sack of the national chairman, Abdullahi Ganduje.
Rising from an emergency meeting in Kano on Monday, January 22, the group said it was clear that the youth asking for Ganduje’s removal are sponsored elements masquerading as APC members.
The Kano Elders group, in a statement signed by its chairman, Abubakar Indabawa and Musaddiq Wada Waziri (secretary), noted that the so-called APC youths are not known to anybody within the APC family and as such are nothing but sponsored bigots with a wrong mission.
The statement said: “These youths are merely sponsored political groups aiming to tarnish the hard-earned efforts of the APC national chairman, who has successfully reconciled aggrieved party members in Ondo, Rivers, and other states since he emerged as chairman about seven months ago.”
Leaders of the group stated that the youth who addressed the press conference in Kano had no affiliation with the APC, asking security to investigate them.
They added that those youths calling for Ganduje’s removal were being sponsored by those frustrated by the reconciliation success achieved by Dr Ganduje as APC National Chairman, as well as his efforts in reforming the party in Kano.
They mentioned that the trouble makers envy the Kano ex-governor, recognising him as the only Northern Nigerian governor who secured the highest number of votes for President Tinubu during the 2023 presidential election.
The Kano Integrity Bloc emphasised that during Dr. Abdullahi Umar Ganduje’s 74th birthday celebration, President Tinubu described him as a consummate politician, a loyal and dependable ally who reached the pinnacle of his career in the civil service.
The Kano APC elders advised the ‘sponsored youths’ to seek suitable careers to build their futures instead of running errands for jealous politicians who will use and dump them.
