Kwankwaso says he might join Tinubu’s team, calls Ganduje his political son
By Ishaya Ibrahim
Former Governor of Kano State, Rabiu Musa Kwankwaso, has said President Bola Ahmed Tinubu was surprised at the revelation that the immediate past governor of the state, Abdullahi Ganduje, attempted to corner choice government land to himself and cronies.
Kwankwaso made the claim after emerging from a meeting with Tinubu yesterday, June 9.
Ganduje, who appears to have been left in the cold following the renewed political romance between Tinubu and Kwankwaso, was also in the Villa to have an audience with the President.
Ganduje, while speaking to journalists, said he would have slapped Kwankwaso at the Presidential Villa.
Kwankwaso, in his reaction, while speaking with BBC Hausa, said Ganduje was confused.
” I heard that he ( Ganduje) said he would’ve slapped me, but I’m here. He was just confused. These are all my boys politically. They can’t even look at me straight in the face if we meet. He was in a confused state when he said that. These my political boys, if they see me they lower their gaze,” Kwankwaso said.
He said he met with Tinubu for about 2 hours at the Presidential Villa and was able to convinced him on the alleged land deals and other infractions of the erstwhile Ganduje administration in Kano state, adding that the President was so ” surprised with the revelations .”
He alleged that Ganduje had among others, allocated lands at the Kano Race Course to his friends and family members, a development that now made it hard for people who wanted to indulge in sporting activities and other exercises, to find a place.
According to him, even the Eid praying ground where Muslims converged to pray during Sallah, was not sparred by Ganduje who had allegedly allowed shops to be built round the holy place where the Emir and many other important dignitaries had prayed, thereby compromising the security of the Eid Prayer ground.
Kwankwaso disclosed that there were possibilities the Tinubu administration may engage some of them from the opposition in his government, and did not ruled out if he may eventually make it in the forthcoming ministerial list of the new administration.