Former Kano State Governor Ibrahim Shekarau yesterday protested against a plan to handover the structure of the All Progressives Party (APC) in the state to the incumbent Governor Rabiu Musa Kwankwaso who defected to the party recently.
Shekarau led a delegation of APC leaders and supporters from Kano to the national headquarters of the party in Abuja yesterday and presented a protest letter to the National Chairman of the party Chief Bisi Akande.
He said surrendering the party leadership to a serving governor because of his defection to the party would amount to a political suicide.
The former said that politics is about people and their aspirations, warning that leaders would fail in their responsibilities, if they refuse to protect the rights of the people they represent.
Shekarau said Kano has always been vibrant in its fight for justice and fairness and promised the continued support of the state APC to the development of the party.
He, however, decried lack of communication between the party at the national level and its branches in the states.
Accompanying Shekarau to the secretariat, former chairman of the defunct ANPP in Kano Alhaji Sani Hashim Hotoro said they were in Abuja to present their grievances over the recent political development in the state.
The protest paper reads in part: “The APC is no doubt a product of patience and sacrifice which the merging parties worked together with unrelenting commitment and utmost sincerity to make it possible”.
They decried the delay in the party membership registration exercise which they said is making members of the party apprehensive.
“The media reports of MOU, signed on the 26th of November 2013 between our great party and the “New PDP” governors”, show that the party had vested the leadership of the APC to the governors in their respective states, they said.
Responding, the National Chairman of the party Chief Bisi Akande commended the delegation for the matured way they presented their concerns to the leadership of the party instead of airing them in the media which he said would have made a mockery of the party.
He assured the delegation that their grievances would be addressed adding that the party has already formed a committee to look into the various challenges facing the party especially those concerning the members on the issue of leadership and party members registration.
Source: Daily Trust.
