The All Progressives Congress (APC) has accused the New Nigeria Peoples Party (NNPP) led administration in Kano state of mobilising some persons in Abuja to protest against the continuous stay in office of Abdullahi Ganduje as the party’s national chairman.
The party, in a statement signed by the Special Assistant to Ganduje on Civil Society and SupportGroup, Okpokwu Ogenyi, on Friday, revealed that the Kano state government hired protesters from the street, mostly Kwankwasiyya members, some of whom are from the North-central zone, to demand for the National Chairman’s resignation.
According to Ogenyi, some of the protesters, who were shortchanged in the process of sharing the largesse given by the Kano State Government exposed the brains behind the protest, adding that the protesters were promised fifty thousand naira each but were later given ten thousand naira each by the organizers.
The Ganduje’s Special Adviser also revealed that “some of the hired protesters, who came on Thursday in the disguise of North-central APC stakeholders, have already been identified as sponsored elements.l
He said: “We are the true APC Stakeholders in the North-central. Our leaders include the likes of Senator Ameh Ebute CON, cormer Senate President of Nigeria, Senator Jack Tilley Gyado, Ambassador Adadu Eachi, Nentanwe Goshwe, the 2023 APC Governorship Candidate Plateau State, Prof. Salihu Ali zaga, former Commissioner in Nasarawa State, among several others too numerous to mention on print.”
While calling on security agents to be vigilant in order to ensure security of lives and property, the APC chieftain said: “Some of the hired protesters also forgot that they were dressed in kwankwasiyya T-shirts and caps during the protest to the APC national secretariat, yet claimed to be members of the APC,what a dangerous move to scuttle peace of our party.
The statement, however, described the development as unfortunate and desperation taken too far, calling on Nigerians especially lovers of democracy to come out in defense of it.
