Posted by Amarachi on Fri 19th May, 2023 - tori.ng
Kwamanda said the party in the entire north-west zone would not welcome Kwankwaso and will withdraw their support for Tinubu if Kwankwaso is given a portfolio in his government.
Rabiu Kwankwaso and Bola Tinubu
A chieftain of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Kano, Abdulmajid Kwamanda, has urged the President-Elect, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu not to include the presidential candidate of the New Nigeria Peoples Party, Rabiu Kwankwaso in his cabinet.
He made the appeal after both politicians were reported to have held a meeting.
Addressing reporters in Kano on Thursday, May 18, Kwamanda said the party in the entire north-west zone would not welcome Kwankwaso and will withdraw their support for Tinubu if Kwankwaso is given a portfolio in his government.
He also warned that if they set the party on fire, even the president-elect would be unable to put it off if Kwankwaso is appointed in his cabinet.
He said;
“We in the north-west do not welcome Rabiu Musa Kwankwaso to our party APC. We do not accept the idea of Bola Tinubu giving him any appointment even as low as a messenger in our dear party.
“Should Tinubu ignore our outcry and appoint Kwankwaso, we are going to disrupt the entire APC in the north and withdraw our support for him.
“If we set the party on fire, not even Tinubu as a president can put out that fire. We are north and the people are our people.
“We have invested all our efforts, integrity and dignity in the North to mobilize the people to vote for Tinubu, they refused to vote for a fellow northerner just for him to win in the region and now come and embrace our major opposition. We will not accept that.
“We assure Tinubu that we will turn our backs on him if he decides to ignore our call. We don’t welcome Kwankwaso to our party and don’t give him any appointments.”