Crisis hits Kano, Kaduna APC

Crisis engulfed the camps of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Kaduna and Kano states as groups within the party have kicked against the leadership in the two states.


The party’s members in the Kaduna State House of Assembly (KDHA) and those at National Assembly passed a vote of no confidence in the state interim chairman of the party, Dr. Hakeem Baba Ahmed, while the members of the party led by the former Governor of Kano State, Malam Ibrahim Shekarau, have rejected the leadership of Governor Rabiu Musa Kwankwaso, saying that they would only recognise and stand by the former governor as the leader of the party, a development that was against the handing over of the party to Kwankwaso by the national leadership of the APC.

The minority leader of the Kaduna State House of Assembly, Honourable Shehu Adamu, said they had passed a vote of no confidence in Baba Ahmed “who had made the party unattractive in recent times.”

“Yes, we issued a vote of no confidence against him yesterday [Friday] during our meeting with our colleagues from the National Assembly, including Senator Sani Saleh,” he said.

“We did that because of his frequent unilateral decisions and high-handedness against party members. He refused to listen to us, so we have no other option than to take such a decision. We shall call a press conference later and intimate the press with the details,” he added.

While speaking with journalists in Kano, the group, led by chairman of the defunct All Nigeria Peoples Party (ANPP), Alhaji Sani Hashimu Hotoro, also distanced themselves from the recent homage paid to Governor Kwankwaso by some members of the defunct ANPP.

Alhaji Sani insisted that “until the interim national leadership of the APC clarify issues surrounding the party leadership in the state, no person would be tolerated to impose himself as the leader, adding that “we are here to confirm our support for Malam Shekarau as the authentic leader of the APC in Kano State.”

But the interim leadership of the party in Kaduna has said at a press conference on Saturday that they were still on track and expressed ignorance of the position of the party’s lawmakers.

Organising Secretary of the APC in the state, Chief Joshua Ephraim told newsmen that they were duly elected to lead the party in Kaduna State, noting that Dr. Baba Ahmed had been carrying all party members along and had never taken a unilateral decision as was alleged