Ganduje Mocks Kwankwaso After He Was Snubbed For A Ministerial Role (Video)

 

The national chairman of the ruling All Progressives Congress, Dr Abdullahi Ganduje has mocked presidential candidate of the New Nigeria Peoples Party, Senator Rabiu Kwankwaso after President Bola Tinubu failed to nominate him as a minister.

 

Ganduje in a viral video that went viral on Monday claimed Kwankwaso supported the contentious demolition of buildings in Kano.

 

Ganduje spoke in Hausa to some of his loyalists and party supporters from Kano State who paid a courtesy visit to the secretariat.

 

In the two-minute, 28-second video, Ganduje stated that President Bola Tinubu was smart enough to see through Kwankwaso’s desperation to become the next Minister of the Federal Capital Territory.

 

“All you will hear is, ‘We will reset the Kano master plan. We have promised Kano people that we will demolish houses even if they are 1,000-storey buildings.’ Look, if an illiterate person does not know he is one, he is certainly blind. That is what befell him,” Ganduje mocked.

 

The video clip, which has since found its way to social media, has started generating debate among supporters of both candidates.

 

When contacted for reaction, the NNPP National Publicity Secretary, Major Agbo, pleaded to be left out of the personal conflict between the APC national chairman and his one-time ally.

 

He said, “Please leave us out of the Ganduje matter. Whatever he thinks he has against Kwankwaso is their problem. It doesn’t have anything to do with the New Nigeria People’s Party.

But the spokesperson for the NNPP Presidential Campaign Council, Ladipo Johnson, stated that Ganduje is merely seeking relevance.

 

“We are not going to waste our time on somebody who is inconsequential, no matter what the APC thinks they are doing. It is as simple as that,” he noted.

 

Prior to the unveiling of the ministerial nominees, there were high expectations that Kwankwaso, former Governor of Rivers State, Nyesom Wike, and some party chieftains from the opposition would feature prominently in Tinubu’s proposed government of national unity.

 

While Wike and a few others were shortlisted, Kwankwaso was not.