Dr. Abdullahi Ganduje, the National Chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC), has said the party is open to welcoming former Kano State governor and New Nigeria Peoples Party (NNPP) leader, Senator Rabiu Musa Kwankwaso, if he decides to join the ruling party.
He said this on Tuesday while addressing newsmen after receiving the Minister of State for Housing and Urban Development, Alhaji Yusuf Ata.
He stressed that the APC is a “big family” capable of accommodating all who are willing to contribute to national development, regardless of past political differences.
Ganduje said: “The APC is deepening and widening democracy in the country.
”Kwankwaso is a fish out of water, trying to find its way back into the waters.
“We cannot say we can’t accommodate him, because a friend in need is a friend indeed.
“We don’t want to leave him completely abandoned, we can still have him in, if he wants to join us”.
“When you see your son running to where he would get shelter and you are a big brother in a big home, I think it is morally right to accommodate him.
“So, we cannot say we cannot accommodate him,” Ganduje noted.
Earlier, Ata, who is a former Speaker of the Kano State House of Assembly said he visited Ganduje to pay his respect and to appreciate him and show support for what the President Bola Tinubu-led administration was doing for Kano State.
“We are strongly behind Tinubu and we are working round the clock to ensure we deliver Kano State in 2027,” he said.
While speaking on the ‘Kwankwasiyya movement”, Ata said the Kwankwasiyya red cap era was becoming a thing of the past in the state.
”For me, I will not want the former Kano state governor to be welcomed into the APC fold. But I have no choice if our national chairman decides to have him on board.” Ata said.
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