50,000 members of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Kano have petitioned President Bola Ahmed Tinubu, APC Nationwide Chairman Abdullahi Ganduje, and Senate President Godswill Akpabio, opposing the nomination of Yusuf Abdullahi Ata as a ministerial candidate.
The group revealed to newsmen that they’ve compiled signatures from members throughout Kano, which might be submitted to the President and the Senate on Monday.
Talking on behalf of the group, Barrister Abubakar said that they’d be taking their grievances on to the Nationwide Meeting and the APC headquarters to formally submit the petition.
“We’re mobilizing 50,000 APC members from Kano who’ve signed this petition in opposition to Ata’s nomination as a minister,” he stated.
The group’s chairman argued that Ata lacks the {qualifications} to signify Kano State within the Federal Government Council, pointing to what he described as “anti-party actions” in the course of the 2023 elections and alleged incompetence.
“It might be recalled that Ata was impeached because the Speaker of the Kano State Home of Meeting over incompetence,” he stated. “In the course of the presidential election, he didn’t ship his polling unit to the APC, and his relationships with APC stakeholders within the state, in addition to his constituents, have been strained—there was even an try and recall him from the State Meeting.”
The chairman additional famous, “It took the intervention of then-Governor Ganduje and Alhaji Aminu Dantata to halt the recall course of.”
He concluded, “The President might contemplate changing Abdullahi Gwarzo with a extra politically influential determine who has served the get together, reminiscent of Nasiru Yusuf Gawuna, Bashir Garba Lado, or the State Party Chairman, Abdullahi Abbas. Ata doesn’t adequately signify our get together or the nice folks of Kano State.”
