APC ticket: Senator asks Buhari, Atiku to withdraw
The senator representing Kano South Senatorial District, Kabiru Gaya, on Thursday, appealed to a former Head of State, Maj.-Gen. Muhammadu Buhari (retd.); and a former Vice President, Atiku Abubakar, to step down for Governor Rabiu Kwankwaso in the struggle for the presidential ticket of the All Progressives Congress. Gaya, who was also a former governor of Kano State, stated this in an interview with journalists in Abuja. He said since Buhari and Atiku were elder statesmen, they should allow a younger Kwankwaso to be the candidate of the APC. Gaya said, "I am not trying to introduce politics into the situation but we have to tell ourselves the truth. Governor Kwankwaso was a minister of defence, and now a serving governor. He was a legislator, once being a deputy speaker of the House of Representatives. "He was also Special Adviser to the President on Dafur. He was a member of the Niger Delta Development Commission, hence he has the credentials. He is a young ...
