Governor Abdullahi Umar Ganduje has said that he and his predecessor in office, Senator Rabiu Musa Kwakwaso used to be friends but that things changed because of the people around the two of them.
“Well, as you know, we were very good friends. In fact, my politics cannot be complete without Kwankwaso and the history of Kwankwaso politics cannot be complete without me. But somewhere somehow, things went wrong.
“But we believe in politics. You will get to a point 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.”
Governor Ganduje, who spoke to news men at the Presidential Villa, Abuja, today, Tuesday after an audience with President Muhammadu Buhari, dismissed the what people outside Kano see as disturbing images after Saturday’s elections in which underage children were said to have participated in voting, describing it as a propaganda.
“You can ask the National observers who went there. They held a press conference. All those pictures were children from school assembly. It is not true. It is part of the propaganda.
“Let them go back to the state and ask the people did they queue up and vote 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 the most important rather than rely on the social media where things are crafted, and pictures that were prearranged were taken. We don’t rely on that.”
According to Ganduje, the local government election on February 10 was very peaceful, adding that the insecurity that was publicized outside Kano was the imagination of those outside the state.
“A month ago we had inter-faith dialogue between the Christians and Muslims and the Ulamas and the clergymen were all there. We had a resolution pertaining to the peace and stability in the state.
“And since I came into office, there has not been any outbreak of instability in the state; nobody has been killed; nobody has been injured as a result of political activities. So you can see that the propaganda outside the state is that there is insecurity in the state. Practically, we have been showing that it is false.” [myad]
