2015: I’m under pressure to run – Kwankwaso for presidency July 14, 2014 •Kano gov: I’ve friends in APC, PDP for support Kano State Governor Rabiu Musa Kwankwaso at the weekend hinted that he might face President Goodluck Jonathan in next year’s elections. Speaking to select journalists in his office yesterday, Kwankwaso, who reiterated that he had not told anybody that he would contest the presidential race, however, declared that if his All Progressives Congress(APC) finds him worthy of flying its ticket, he would be very happy to assume the responsibility. The governor said he had got the experience, education including all what it takes to perform better than the incumbent and his team. Kwankwaso who was one of five Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) governors, who defected to the APC last year, said he was lucky to have friends across the spectrum of the two major parties, who would support him. His words: “Not only that I am so lucky that I am being loved by the APC members across the board and at the same time, I am well known in the PDP. Most of these guys who are still in the PDP are my friends. And one on one, I am sure that they would vote for Rabiu Musa Kwankwaso”. He expressed delight that a number of Nigerians are already clamouring for him to contest the election in 2015, adding, “that in itself makes me very happy. When I didn’t say I want it, people found me worthy to the extent that they are printing posters. Many of them have printed posters and other campaign materials. But what I told them is that anything to do with 2015, don’t take it out”. The governor maintained that as a party man, he is devoted to the emergence of the right of candidate, noting, “we have leaders, we have friends and we have those that are at the lower cadre of the party. The idea is to get the right candidate, somebody who can be acceptable to everybody” He stressed that he would work to ensure that his party’s flagbearer would be somebody who has the capacity to do the job of the office of the president. “We want people who can bring positive change and people, who will never go to the mosque, who will never go to church and start kneeling and start begging and start bringing in things that others and other religions would feel bad,” he stated “The president of this country should be a president. He should not be an imam; he should not be a pastor. He should be somebody who would look at every Nigerian, even those without religion, to treat them equally, to love them, to unite them, not to divide them because he wants to be president”, he said. On the National Conference which winds up soon, the APC governor maintained that as predicted by some of them, the national dialogue has turned out a mere waste of time and national resources. He alleged that going by the recommendations of the sub-committee, the final outcome of the conference would further pauperize the northern part of the country, while lamenting that more money would go to a particular sub-region which already had been allocated too much money. “That was why we were telling our delegates to the conference that they should do whatever is possible to ensure that for the peace and unity of this coun try, the poor is not made poorer. They should leave him as he is, not to worsen his situation. “To me, since October 1, 2013, during the broadcast of Mr. President when he mentioned that the issue of confab, I knew very well that it was just going to be a waste of resources and a waste of time. “Now, the confab is nearing completion and I think even those who could not understand what I was trying to say then, now have every reason to believe that we said the right thing. Now, if I may ask, what have we achieved in the confab so far? In my opinion, nothing! Except a situation whereby the government is using the confab to achieve its plot of divide and rule. “This country is now being divided further by the confab. We have people talking about Muslims on this side, Christians on the other side. People of this country are now talking about North on this side, South on the other side. People are talking of those who have got oil and those who don’t have oil. People are now talking of ethnicity”, the governor lamented. “Now, if you are talking about the distribution of wealth and you are talking about additional 5 per cent to 13 percent, additional this to that, at the end of the day, who is losing? Because it is the same treasury. If you are taking this from point A to transfer it to point B, somebody must be a winner and somebody must be a loser. And from what we are seeing, everybody knows who the loser is. “And the implication of that, in my opinion, is that those who are poor now, with this level of insecurity, would now be made to be poorer. And it means more insecurity. And insecurity does not help anybody in this country, does not help our neighbours and does not help our friends and even our enemies all over the world. Why? This is because with insecurity, everybody has something to lose”. “And whether anybody likes it or not, there is this correlation between poverty and what we are seeing today in this part of the country. They don’t want to hear that, they have been disputing that, but everybody outside this country, all our friends, the United States of America, Britain , Germany, anywhere we go, they say the same story . It is a common arithmetic”, he said.
Posted on: Mon, 14 Jul 2014 16:56:14 +0000
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