The former Governor of Kano
State, Dr Rabi’u Musa Kwankwaso, has boasted that he would be the next president
of Nigeria.
Kwankwaso is one of the 13
presidential aspirants jostling for the sole ticket of the Peoples Democratic
Party, PDP.
The former governor, who is
currently representing Kano Central at the Senate, made the declaration on
Thursday while speaking at the PDP state secretariat when he visited Jos, the
Plateau State capital to lobby delegates ahead of party’s presidential primary
elections in October.
Kwankwaso while addressing the
Chairman, Plateau State chapter of party, Damishi Sango said, “I know there is
conference currently going on in Abuja, and because your relative is coming to
Jos, you then delegated your Deputy to represent you.
“I know you wouldn’t go anywhere
because Rabi’u Musa Kwankwaso is coming, you asked your Deputy to go because
the conference there is irrelevant. The most relevant one is the next president
Kwankwaso is coming to Jos,” he said.
Kwankwaso, former Minister of
Defense during the Olusegun Obasanjo’s regime added that he has what it takes
to match President Muhammadu Buhari’s popularity.
“I am lucky I am from Kano, a
state with the highest population conducted during last census, and also I am
from North West, a zone with highest population in Nigeria, and you know
politics is a game of numbers and I have the numbers,” he said.
Kwankwaso explained that Buhari
has failed in providing education, employment for the teaming youths and on
infrastructure.
“I would provide free education
for Nigerians. If you remember in 2001, I built Kano State University of
Technology, Wudil, and in 2012 I built North West University. I sponsored about
1,162 Kano indigenes to study different courses at private universities in
Nigeria.” He said.
He said, “My government also
sponsored about 2, 600 Kano indigenes to study abroad in countries like USA,
England, France, Egypt and Sudan, so if elected president all states of Nigeria
would enjoy free education.”
Kwankwaso also pledged if elected
president in 2019 he would work round the clock to end the farmers-herders
clashes bedeviling the country.
The former governor also said he
was one of the commanders that made Buhari the president in 2015, “And we the
commanders are in PDP, therefore Buhari wouldn’t win 2019 presidential
election.”
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