A chieftain of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Nanfwang Dachi Gunat, has sounded a note of caution to lawmakers across the country against passing a vote of confidence on the embattled National Chairman of the party, Abdullahi Umar Ganduje.
Gunat, who was a member of Support Groups Coordination (North-Central) for the Tinubu/Shettima Presidential Campaign Council (PCC), said the lawmakers he is cautioning on their behalf, include both former and serving lawmaker, whether in the state houses of Assembly, House of representatives or senate.
He stressed that such endorsement would amount to betraying the North-Central region which has been pushing to reclaim the chairmanship seat after the resignation of Abdullahi Adamu, who is from the North-Central zone.
Speaking with newsmen yesterday in Jos, the Plateau State capital, the APC chieftain revealed that rumours making the rounds is that Ganduje is planning to organize both former and serving legislators across the country in order to get their support for the chairmanship seat to still remain in the North-West, where he is from, and that they should also endorse him for the position.
According to him, that position has been constitutionally agreed by the party to be for the North-Central zone, which has contributed greatly towards the progress of the party, but that Ganduje is trying everything possible to twist that fact. However, the North-Central, he said, wouldn’t concede that position to another region within the party structure.
The party chieftain disputed the credit given to Ganduje on the victory of the APC in the Edo and Ondo governorship election, saying that the people voted for the party because of their belief and trust in the party and not because of Ganduje, who he claimed could not deliver his home State of Kano to the APC.
He called on President Bola Tinubu and leaders of the party to immediately convene a National Executive Council (NEC) meeting in order to address the issue of the Chairmanship position accordingly so that it doesn’t tear the party apart
Gunat pointed out that convening the meeting to address that vital issue is key to the party’s unity and success towards the 2027 election, because the North-Central region is already feeling marginalised and relegated to the background.
He added that as a grassroots politician and mobilizer who served on the presidential campaign council of the APC, he understands the feelings of the people, and that the growing grumbling in several quarters and feeling of dissatisfaction among the people in the North-Central should quickly afdressed before it escalates and affects the party’s progress and fortune.
