Kano APC Splits into Factions

By Ibrahim Shuaibu

A staunch supporter of President Muhammadu Buhari in Kano State, Alhaji Abdulmajid Kwamanda, has created a faction of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Akida, splitting the party into two factions in the state.

Kwamanda, who has been championing Buhari’s ideologies since 2003 when he contested for the presidency on the platform of the defunct All Peoples Party (APP), said the state Governor, Abdullahi Ganduje, and the APC state caretaker Chairman, Abdullahi Abbas, should be held responsible for the crack in the party.

Kwamanda, who disclosed the situation in the party while addressing a news conference in Kano yesterday, said the meeting for the splitting of the party commenced on May 31.

According to him, “The actions of the state governor and the party caretaker chairman for vehemently blocking some party loyalists who wish to contest the state gubernatorial seat has clearly negated the principles of democratic norms and internal politicking.

“We have already designed our movements and how we are going to ensure that our new APC Akida makes it to the Government House in 2023.”

He said the decision to split the party into two, ‘one for principled politicians and the other for hungry politicians’, was born out of effort to ensure that Ganduje does not impose candidates on the people of the state in 2023.

“We are creating APC Akida, and we have the backing and support of the Kano people 100 percent. Even President Buhari cannot stop us from splitting the party for now.

“The new faction, APC Akida, would resist any attempt by Ganduje and the caretaker chairman of the APC to impose their candidates on the people of the state in 2023,” he said.

The APC chieftain, who was said to be suspended from the party in Kano municipal wards of Kofar Wambai for alleged anti-party activities, denied knowledge of the suspension, insisting that what they did was null and void.

He said one could not be suspended or sacked from a party without giving fair hearing and or even contacting him to hear his own version of the story.

“I think those who said they suspended me are doing a hatchet job, but they have since failed because right now, as you can see, we have split the party with the emergence of our Akida faction, so we will see who is who,” he stated.

On whether Buhari will not be happy with the splitting of the APC in the state, Kwamanda said: “Buhari does not control my political ideologies and he knows that whatever I’m doing is the right thing.”