The ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) has accused Senator Rabiu Musa Kwankwaso of struggling ‘desperately’ to rule Kano State by proxy.

Besides, APC also alleged the unveiling of Mustapha as running mate to Comrade Aminu Abdussalam has further exposed Kwankwaso’s third term agenda.

The National Democratic Congress (NDC) on Monday unveiled Mustapha, eldest son of Senator Rabiu Musa Kwankwaso as running mate to Gwarzo ahead of 2027 poll.

Mustapha Kwankwaso, was Commissioner for Youths and Sports under Governor Abba Kabir Yusuf cabinet. He resigned along side three other commissioners from the present administration following the political realignment that took Governor to the ruling All Progressives Congress APC.

Like Mustapha Kwankwaso, Gwarzo also resigned his position as Deputy Governor to Governor Yusuf after the mounting pressure of impeachment by the state house of assembly.

Reacting to the development, the state APC Chairman, Hon. Umar Haruna Doguwa said the ruling party was not surprised by the imposition of Mustapha which he (Doguwa) believed is another privilege for Kwankwaso to entrench his alleged third term agenda.

Doguwa insisted that Kwankwaso will not hesitate to do more to assert his selfish interest, if given the latitude of space and time, having failed to same agenda in 2015.

According to Doguwa, “APC is not surprised with the nomination of Kwankwaso son Mustapha as running mate to Aminu Abdussalam in their NDC party. In fact APC expects more than this from Kwankwaso. We know and most of us who are very close to him know that Kwankwaso tried all possible means to secure a third term in the office.

“For your information, Kwankwaso actually worked to continue in office for the third term in 2015 and it was only God that stopped him. He had wanted to use legal logic to prove that only concurrent terms are recognized by the constitution and not separate terms. Eventually that could not scale through.

“He had wanted to seek a court injunction to run for a third term in government. Unfortunately that could not worked for him. So, imposing his biological son to run as deputy Governor is an opportunity to harsh the plan, giving more opportunities, Kwankwaso will do more than that”. Doguwa alleged.

Doguwa, Kwankwaso’s erstwhile allay alleged that the Kwankwasiyya leader planned to install his son to run the government by proxy, insisted Kano people will soon understand the character of the former Senator.

On whether the APC is jittery of Kwankwaso’s son nomination, Doguwa said ” We can’t be jittery because we are solid and fully on ground. We will see what will happen. Election is nearby and we are all waiting. We are the commanders in Kwankwasiyya Movement before now and we will see what happen this time around”. Doguwa maintained.

The Kwankwasiyya Movement has vowed to take over power from the ruling APC following the defection of Yusuf to APC, a development Kwankwaso described as height of betrayal.