The President-elect, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu on Saturday, received the governorship candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Kogi State, Ahmed Usman Ododo in Abuja.
The governorship candidate was led to Tinubu by the Kogi State Governor, Yahaya Bello.
The President-elect gave his blessings to Ododo, and raised his hands up to signify him as the endorsed candidate for the November governorship election in Kogi State.
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He also urged the people of Kogi State to vote for the APC candidate in the forthcoming elections.
Ododo is the anointed candidate of Governor Bello.
Abba Yusuf will revisit Sanusi’s dethronement
Presidential Candidate of the New Nigeria Peoples Party (NNPP) and leader of the Kwankwasiyya Movement, Rabi’u Musa Kwankwaso, has said the incoming government in Kano will revisit the dethronement of Alhaji Muhammadu Sanusi, 14th Emir of Kano.
Sanusi, who became emir in the final term of Kwankwaso as governor, was dethroned by outgoing Governor Abdullahi Ganduje, who was deputy governor at the time the monarch was installed.
Sanusi was removed on March 9, 2020, and also banished from Kano and sent to Loko, a remote community in Nasarawa State, while the expenses of the emirate under him were probed.
Ganduje had also split the emirate into five and appointed emirs who were at par.
But speaking in a viral video, Kwankwaso said the dethronement and balkanisation of the emirate would be reviewed by the government of Abba Kabir Yusuf, the governor-elect, who is popularly known as Abba Gida-Gida.
We have campaigned and as you know we are popular in Nigeria especially in Kano state, we are now back and God willing we will continue with the good works our administration left. This incoming governor and his team will take them up.
As elders, we will continue to advise them to do the right thing. We tried not intervene in the issue of bringing or removing any Emir, but now, an opportunity has come.
Those who were given this opportunity will sit down and see to the issues. They will look at what they are expected to do. Beside the Emir, even the emirate has been divided into five places. All these need to be studied. Usually a leader inherits good, bad and issues that are hard to reconcile.
