Ibrahim Shekarau
Former Kano State governor Ibrahim Shekarau has dismissed reports that Governor Abdullahi Ganduje and the APC made overtures to him to return to the party ahead of the 2019 elections.
Speaking to Daily Trust, he said neither Ganduje nor APC ever sat down with him or made overtures to him before or after Senator Rabiu Kwankwaso announced his defection from APC to PDP.
Source had claimed that Ganduje had offered Shekarau a chance to nominate a running mate for next year’s election following plans to drop the current deputy governor, Prof Hafiz Abubakar from the APC ticket.
However, Shekarau denied that such a thing was ever discussed. He said with the heating up of the political season, a lot of stories are being peddled everyday which are not true but are designed to achieve certain political ends.
Shekarau, who has declared his intention to seek PDP’s presidential ticket, recalled that similar stories made the rounds recently alleging that he was about to conclude a deal with the Kwankwasiyya group in order to team up against Ganduje and APC in next year’s elections.
He denied that there were such talks, saying he never sat one on one with Kwankwaso since the 2015 elections.