Ganduje, others urge unity in Kano APC ahead of 2027 elections

Yusuf assigns portfolios to new commissioners, others 

The National Chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Dr. Abudullahi Ganduje, alongside other stakeholders, has urged members of the party in Kano State to be united to wrestle power from the incumbent New Nigeria Peoples Party (NNPP) administration in the state.

Ganduje made the call during the 8th and 9th APC member’s Kano State House of Assembly Forum dinner.  The dinner was held in honour of Kabiru Rurum, Hamisu Chidari, Yusuf Atta, Labaran Madari, Ayuba Durum, Babangida Yakudima and Baffa Danagundi.

He said: “Unity is the only way out for us; it’s the only option we have to get what we want. God has already intervened in our situation; the current government is already distorting the state. We are just waiting for time.

“The next election will be a matter of shifting a hen from its eggs. I always get surprised when Rabiu Kwankwaso says he is the one who has people. “I can swear to God; if not for our issues that some of us went away, he wouldn’t have won any election in the state,” he said.

MEANWHILE, Governor Abba Kabir Yusuf of Kano State has announced the portfolios of the newly appointed Commissioners, permanent secretaries and special advisers.

Before the announcement of their primary places of assignment, the new political appointees took renewed oaths of allegiance and office.  In the new appointment, Alhaji Shehu Wada Sagagi, former Chief of Staff, is now Commissioner of the Ministry of Investment, Commerce and Trade; AbdulKadir Abdulsalam, former Accountant General (AG) was appointed as Commissioner for Rural and Community Development while Ibrahim Abdullahi Waiye takes over the Ministry of Information and Internal Affairs.

Dr Gadaffi Shehu Sani resumed the newly established Ministry of Power and Sustainable Energy, Dr Dahiru Hashim, Commissioner for Environment, Dr. Ismail Aliyu DanMaraya, Commissioner for Finance, and Nura Iro Ma’aji was made the Commissioner for Procurement and Project Monitoring.

The 13 special advisers and six permanent secretaries equally took oaths administered by the Attorney General and Commissioner for Justice, Isa Haruna Dederi. Yusuf explained that he has assembled the new appointees on merit to strengthen his administration’s policies while discharging campaign promises.