BREAKING;Ganduje In Poll Position To Replace Adamu As APC Chairman

The former governor of Kano State Dr Abdullahi Umar Ganduje has been tipped to replace Abdullahi Adamu who designed his position as the National Chairman of the All Progressives Congress.

Ganduje is a frontiline supporter and mobiliser of President Bola Tinubu from day one. He was one of the earliest governors to support Tinubu’s presidential bid.

According to a close source who disclosed this to DAILYNEWSLINK, said that President Tinubu is highly satisfied and comfortable with Ganduje as Chairman of the party and his currently pushing for him to clinch the chairmanship position of the APC.

The source also disclosed that President Tinubu considered Ganduje as his number one close ally and loyalist since the early beginning of his presidential bid.

We also learnt that the former Kano State governor Ganduje who has some corruption charges hanging around his neck was initially nominated as minister, but his name was later withdrawn on Tuesday after Adamu’s resignation.

The former governor was said to be more interested in becoming a minister than a party man. He had to be lobbied by the president and other party bigwigs.

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“Ganduje had to be lobbied. This is what is delaying the announcement of the ministerial nominees in the Senate Chamber, even though the president had already sent the list on Tuesday. ” A source who pleaded for anonymity told this paper.

After he accepted the offer, President Tinubu asked him to bring his replacement from Kano and other five people for appointments among which is the party’s flagbearer in Kano Nasiru Yusuf Gawuna and Baffa Babba Dan-agundi, a former Managing Director of Kano Roads and Traffic Agency.