A former Governor of Kano state, Ibrahim Shekarau, has said the National Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Uche Secondus and Rabiu Kwankwaso, also a former governor of Kano, contributed to his exit from the opposition party.<\/p>\n
Shekarau joined the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) on Saturday, a day after Adams Oshiomhole, chairman of the APC and Abdullahi Ganduje, Governor of the state, met with him at his residence.<\/p>\n
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He told his supporters that he left the opposition party, because they gave Rabiu Kwankwaso an edge over other Kano PDP leaders after he defected.<\/p>\n
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\u201cI wish to first of all, give some little background, sometime in July this year, a number of APC leaders decided to cross over from APC to PDP.<\/p>\n
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\u201cIn appreciation, our party, the PDP set up a Committee of Integration and Contact led by former governor of Cross River state, His Excellency, Liyel Imoke.<\/p>\n
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\u201cUnfortunately, all of these procedures were violated, they were not observed they were not respected. The technical committee under Liyel Imoke, five of them, reported directly to the national chairman some agreement signed between them and members of the Reformed APC.<\/p>\n
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\u201cSome of these agreements included, for example, in Kano, Rabiu Musa Kwankwaso was granted the following privileges: 51 percent of the structure of the leadership of the party; while the existing PDP members should take 49 percent. They also granted to Kwankwaso that all national and state legislators who come with him should have automatic ticket to contest 2019 election.<\/p>\n
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\u201cWe called a meeting of the stakeholders in the state and we vehemently disagreed. We passed a resolution on the 25th of August and we put it in writing, addressed to the national chairman that we have not agreed with the contents of the said agreement.<\/p>\n
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\u201cWe wrote a letter of protest which we titled \u2018Integration of PDP Returnees Members.\u2019 We disagreed, we wrote, we would be given copies for all the media people to see,\u201d Shekarau said.<\/p>\n
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After series of meeting with Kwankwaso, Shekarau said they couldn\u2019t come to an agreement as Kwankwaso insisted on having the 51 percent.<\/p>\n
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\u201cKwankwaso said that he wanted 51 percent and we said we are not willing to agree to that. This deliberation could not continue. We held four separate meetings with Rabi\u2019u Musa Kwankwaso and the committee of Liyel Imoke,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
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\u201cWe went as far as granting delegates at the Ward level that would be shared between Aminu Wali\u2019s group, my group and Kwankwaso\u2019s group; but Kwankwaso said he does not recognize such, what he is after is that he would be granted 51 percent of the party structure at all levels; which we said we would not tolerate.<\/p>\n
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\u201cOn the basis of this, the national chairman decided that we of the PDP in Kano are not cooperating. He felt we are not cooperating for unconstitutional act, because of this, he felt we have disagreed with the party and therefore, he pronounced the dissolution of the party structure in Kano which is unconstitutional; and we said we didn\u2019t recognise it.<\/p>\n
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\u201cTo make it worse, when he constituted the caretaker committee, the seven-member caretaker committee were all nominees of Dr. Rabi\u2019u Musa Kwankwaso and they are all from Kano. This has violated many constitutional provisions.<\/p>\n
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\u201cThe tradition of the party indicates that whenever it is necessary or constitutionally right to form a caretaker committee in a state, the chairman and secretary of the committee must come from outside the state.<\/p>\n
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\u201cIn this case, that was not done. All the members of that committee are from the Kwankwaso\u2019s camp of the Kwankwasiyya. We said we cannot take this. We gave the party a deadline to restore the unconstitutional act of returning back the elected officers of the party. We also demanded that we don\u2019t recognize automatic ticket because it is unconstitutional; it is against the spirit of democracy.\u201d<\/p>\n
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At this point, Shekarau said he considered three options; either to remain in PDP under \u201cthis crazy, unconstitutional, unacceptable arrangement, which does not go down well with our people, or we abandon political activities or we move to another political party.\u201d<\/p>\n
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He said he finally agreed and moved to the APC<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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