BY SEGUN ADEBAYO, ABUJA – Governor Abdullahi Ganduje of Kano State on Tuesday disclosed that his refusal to allow his predecessor, Sen Rabiu Kwankwaso, control him from outside has been responsible for the sour relationship existing between them.
Speaking to State House correspondents after attending a programme at the old Banquet Hall of the Presidential Villa, Abuja, Ganduje declared that his political history could not be complete without mentioning Kwankwaso, just as the former governor’s history was incomplete without his own name being mention.
According to him, “As you know, we were very good friends. In fact, my politics cannot be complete without Kwankwaso and the history of Kwankwaso’s politics cannot be complete without me. But somewhere, somehow, things went wrong.
“We believe in politics that you will get to a point that you cannot rule and manage a state and then you are being controlled from outside. You know that one is very very difficult to happen if you look at the psychology of leaders.”
Describing media reports of underage voting during the last local council election in his state as untrue, the governor explained that pictures being circulated to depict underage voters were pictures taken during a school’s assembly.
In his words, “That was propaganda. You can ask the national observers who went there. They held a press conference. All those pictures were children from a school assembly. It is not true, it is part of the propaganda.
“Let them go back to the states and ask the people if they truly queued up and voted in the election.
“So, we don’t even need to respond to such falsehood.
“Ask those who are credible and who witnessed the election, I think that is important, rather than relying on the social media where things are crafted, and take pictures that were prearranged. We don’t rely on that,” he said.
