Governor of Kano State, Abdullahi Ganduje explained the factors that led to a breakdown in the relationship between himself and longtime friend, Senator Rabiu Kwankwaso.
According to Ganduje, this was due to the latter’s attempt to control him and have a bigger say on the affairs of Kano state which Ganduje says he will not stand for.
Speaking to state house correspondents, he said; “As you know, we were very good friends. In fact, my politics cannot be complete without Kwankwaso and the history of Kwankwaso’s politics cannot be complete without me. But somewhere somehow, things went wrong.
“We believe in politics that you will get to a point that you cannot rule and manage a state and then you are being controlled from outside. You know that one is very very difficult to happen if you look at the psychology of leaders.”
He also spoke briefly on reports that indicate that there was some underage voting going on in Kano during the last local government election. He also called the images circulating on social media, propaganda.
On that matter, he said; “That was propaganda. You can ask the national observers who went there. They held a press conference. All those pictures were children during a school assembly. It is not true, it is part of the propaganda.
“Let them go back to the states and ask the people did they queue up and vote in the election?
He added, “So, we don’t even need to respond to such falsehood. Ask those who are credible and who witnessed the election, I think that is the most important rather than rely on the social media where things are crafted, and take pictures that were pre-arranged. We don’t rely on that,”