APC North-Central leaders support Ganduje to replace Adamu

The former governor of Kano State, Dr. Abdullahi Ganduje, has received support from the Coalition of North-Central Leaders of the ruling All Progressives Congress in the race to succeed Senator Abdullahi Adamu, the party’s outgoing national chairman.

The change occurs just two days after the 73-year-old lawmaker received a similar endorsement from APC chairmen from seven North-West states at a meeting in Kaduna.

There are conflicting opinions among party members and supporters of the ruling party regarding the supposed endorsement of Ganduje as the chosen candidate by President Bola Tinubu and the APC governors.

While some party leaders believed the new national chairman should come from Nasarawa State in accordance with the APC’s zoning system, others supported the selection of the former Kano governor.

Speaking to journalists on Thursday in Abuja, the coalition’s convener, Okpokwu Ogenyi, said that although the current zoning mechanism gives the position to their zone, the APC North-Central leaders have agreed to give Ganduje the position instead.

“We, the people of North Central, have held the national chairperson positions of all the countries ruling parties and have performed well in terms of party management,” he declared. We are pleased to report that the party won the most recent residential election under the leadership of a chairman from the zone.

“Today, our father, who served as the APC’s National Chairman, resigned from his job, leaving the position open. As you may be aware, no government can function in a vacuum, so our party needs a capable leader to lead it.

“On this point, we firmly support Dr. Abdullahi Umar Ganduje’s election as national chairman of our wonderful Party, the APC. Abdullahi Ganduje is a party animal who has made a name for himself as a highly esteemed scholar.

One could be tempted to wonder, as North Central youth, why we shouldn’t demand that the position be kept in the zone. The fact is that we have made our fair share of contributions and would like to see other zones given the chance to take part in Party management. When it comes to the interests of the country, we in the North Central region are far beyond trivialities, avarice, and selfishness.