Governor Abdullahi Umar Ganduje
Governor Abdullahi Ganduje of Kano has dismissed claim by an APC faction nPDP that it is being marginalised by the ruling party.
The governor, on Monday, told newsmen that those who went to the party secretariat to lodge the complaint did not represent the majority of the members of the defunct nPDP.
The nPDP had publicly criticised President Muhammadu Buhari and the ruling party for allegedly marginalising them.
But Ganduje 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 marginalisation.”
He recalled that the Speaker of the House of Representatives and several governors, including those of Kwara, Adamawa and Kano, and hundreds of legislators are from the defunct nPDP.
He added that such officers cannot be considered to be marginalised under the present dispensation.
“I believe that there must be something under ground 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 marginalisation is coming up now. You will see that it is not marginalisation. It is a case of corruption fighting back,” he said.