{"id":146701,"date":"2025-01-19T11:22:08","date_gmt":"2025-01-19T10:22:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/uncategorized\/apc-fires-back-at-kofa-rejects-reconciliation-between-kwankwaso-ganduje"},"modified":"2025-01-24T19:56:34","modified_gmt":"2025-01-24T18:56:34","slug":"apc-fires-back-at-kofa-rejects-reconciliation-between-kwankwaso-ganduje","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/parties\/apc-fires-back-at-kofa-rejects-reconciliation-between-kwankwaso-ganduje","title":{"rendered":"APC fires back at Kofa, rejects reconciliation between Kwankwaso, Ganduje"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong>Africa-Press &#8211; Nigeria. <\/strong><\/span>The Kano State chapter of the All Progressives Congress, APC, has stated that the efforts made by Abdulmumin Jibrin Kofa to facilitate reconciliation between Kwankwaso and Ganduje were driven by Kwankwaso\u2019s desire to return to the APC. They argue that the notion of reconciliation between Kwankwaso and Ganduje, as introduced by Kofa, is a political deception, as they believe there is no need to align politically with Kwankwaso.<\/p>\n<p>This statement was made by Ahmad S. Aruwa, the APC spokesperson for Kano State, during an interview with Hikima Radio in Kano.<\/p>\n<p>According to the APC spokesperson, the intention behind Kwankwaso\u2019s efforts to rejoin the APC is to regain control of the party from its current members.<\/p>\n<p>He highlighted that Kwankwaso had previously undermined Malam Ibrahim Shekarau by forcing a shift from APC to PDP, and had similarly betrayed their trust when they were in the PDP.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLooking at how Kofa outlined the achievements and positions held by Kwankwaso and Ganduje, it becomes clear that he is too insignificant to mediate peace between the two.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Aruwa further emphasized that if anyone was to mediate between Kwankwaso and Ganduje, it should be Governor Abba Kabir Yusuf of Kano State, not Kofa.<\/p>\n<p><strong>For More News And Analysis About <span style=\"color: #ff6600\">Nigeria<\/span> Follow <span style=\"color: #ff6600\">Africa-Press<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Africa-Press &#8211; Nigeria. The Kano State chapter of the All Progressives Congress, APC, has stated that the efforts made by Abdulmumin Jibrin Kofa to facilitate reconciliation between Kwankwaso and Ganduje were driven by Kwankwaso\u2019s desire to return to the APC. They argue that the notion of reconciliation between Kwankwaso and Ganduje, as introduced by Kofa, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":146700,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,16],"tags":[10594,15553,34,254,15554],"class_list":["post-146701","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-parties","tag-abba-kabir-yusuf","tag-abdullahi-umar-ganduje","tag-apc","tag-nigeria","tag-rabiu-musa-kwankwaso"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.1 (Yoast SEO v27.0) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>APC fires back at Kofa, rejects reconciliation between Kwankwaso, Ganduje - Nigeria<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"The Kano State chapter of the All Progressives Congress, APC, has stated that the efforts made by Abdulmumin Jibrin Kofa ...\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/parties\/apc-fires-back-at-kofa-rejects-reconciliation-between-kwankwaso-ganduje\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"APC fires back at Kofa, rejects reconciliation between Kwankwaso, Ganduje\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"The Kano State chapter of the All Progressives Congress, APC, has stated that the efforts made by Abdulmumin Jibrin Kofa ...\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/parties\/apc-fires-back-at-kofa-rejects-reconciliation-between-kwankwaso-ganduje\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Nigeria\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2025-01-19T10:22:08+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2025-01-24T18:56:34+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sites\/3\/2025\/01\/sm_1737273948.826683.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"1000\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"575\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"2 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/parties\/apc-fires-back-at-kofa-rejects-reconciliation-between-kwankwaso-ganduje#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/parties\/apc-fires-back-at-kofa-rejects-reconciliation-between-kwankwaso-ganduje\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"cfeditoren\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb\"},\"headline\":\"APC fires back at Kofa, rejects reconciliation between Kwankwaso, Ganduje\",\"datePublished\":\"2025-01-19T10:22:08+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2025-01-24T18:56:34+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/parties\/apc-fires-back-at-kofa-rejects-reconciliation-between-kwankwaso-ganduje\"},\"wordCount\":222,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/parties\/apc-fires-back-at-kofa-rejects-reconciliation-between-kwankwaso-ganduje#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sites\/3\/2025\/01\/sm_1737273948.826683.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"Abba Kabir Yusuf\",\"Abdullahi Umar Ganduje\",\"APC\",\"Nigeria\",\"Rabiu Musa Kwankwaso\"],\"articleSection\":[\"all news\",\"Parties\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/parties\/apc-fires-back-at-kofa-rejects-reconciliation-between-kwankwaso-ganduje#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/parties\/apc-fires-back-at-kofa-rejects-reconciliation-between-kwankwaso-ganduje\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/parties\/apc-fires-back-at-kofa-rejects-reconciliation-between-kwankwaso-ganduje\",\"name\":\"APC fires back at Kofa, rejects reconciliation between Kwankwaso, Ganduje - Nigeria\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/#website\"},\"primaryImageOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/parties\/apc-fires-back-at-kofa-rejects-reconciliation-between-kwankwaso-ganduje#primaryimage\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/parties\/apc-fires-back-at-kofa-rejects-reconciliation-between-kwankwaso-ganduje#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sites\/3\/2025\/01\/sm_1737273948.826683.jpg\",\"datePublished\":\"2025-01-19T10:22:08+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2025-01-24T18:56:34+00:00\",\"author\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb\"},\"description\":\"The Kano State chapter of the All Progressives Congress, APC, has stated that the efforts made by Abdulmumin Jibrin Kofa ...\",\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/parties\/apc-fires-back-at-kofa-rejects-reconciliation-between-kwankwaso-ganduje#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/parties\/apc-fires-back-at-kofa-rejects-reconciliation-between-kwankwaso-ganduje\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/parties\/apc-fires-back-at-kofa-rejects-reconciliation-between-kwankwaso-ganduje#primaryimage\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sites\/3\/2025\/01\/sm_1737273948.826683.jpg\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sites\/3\/2025\/01\/sm_1737273948.826683.jpg\",\"width\":1000,\"height\":575,\"caption\":\"APC fires back at Kofa, rejects reconciliation between Kwankwaso, Ganduje\"},{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/parties\/apc-fires-back-at-kofa-rejects-reconciliation-between-kwankwaso-ganduje#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"Home\",\"item\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"APC fires back at Kofa, rejects reconciliation between Kwankwaso, Ganduje\"}]},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/\",\"name\":\"Africa Press | Nigeria | Homepage\",\"description\":\"Just another Africa News Agency Sites site\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"SearchAction\",\"target\":{\"@type\":\"EntryPoint\",\"urlTemplate\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/?s={search_term_string}\"},\"query-input\":{\"@type\":\"PropertyValueSpecification\",\"valueRequired\":true,\"valueName\":\"search_term_string\"}}],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"Person\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb\",\"name\":\"cfeditoren\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/author\/cfeditoren\"}]}<\/script>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO Premium plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"APC fires back at Kofa, rejects reconciliation between Kwankwaso, Ganduje - Nigeria","description":"The Kano State chapter of the All Progressives Congress, APC, has stated that the efforts made by Abdulmumin Jibrin Kofa ...","robots":{"index":"index","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"canonical":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/parties\/apc-fires-back-at-kofa-rejects-reconciliation-between-kwankwaso-ganduje","og_locale":"en_US","og_type":"article","og_title":"APC fires back at Kofa, rejects reconciliation between Kwankwaso, Ganduje","og_description":"The Kano State chapter of the All Progressives Congress, APC, has stated that the efforts made by Abdulmumin Jibrin Kofa ...","og_url":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/parties\/apc-fires-back-at-kofa-rejects-reconciliation-between-kwankwaso-ganduje","og_site_name":"Nigeria","article_published_time":"2025-01-19T10:22:08+00:00","article_modified_time":"2025-01-24T18:56:34+00:00","og_image":[{"width":1000,"height":575,"url":"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sites\/3\/2025\/01\/sm_1737273948.826683.jpg","type":"image\/jpeg"}],"author":"cfeditoren","twitter_card":"summary_large_image","twitter_misc":{"Written by":"cfeditoren","Est. reading time":"2 minutes"},"schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Article","@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/parties\/apc-fires-back-at-kofa-rejects-reconciliation-between-kwankwaso-ganduje#article","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/parties\/apc-fires-back-at-kofa-rejects-reconciliation-between-kwankwaso-ganduje"},"author":{"name":"cfeditoren","@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb"},"headline":"APC fires back at Kofa, rejects reconciliation between Kwankwaso, Ganduje","datePublished":"2025-01-19T10:22:08+00:00","dateModified":"2025-01-24T18:56:34+00:00","mainEntityOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/parties\/apc-fires-back-at-kofa-rejects-reconciliation-between-kwankwaso-ganduje"},"wordCount":222,"commentCount":0,"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/parties\/apc-fires-back-at-kofa-rejects-reconciliation-between-kwankwaso-ganduje#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sites\/3\/2025\/01\/sm_1737273948.826683.jpg","keywords":["Abba Kabir Yusuf","Abdullahi Umar Ganduje","APC","Nigeria","Rabiu Musa Kwankwaso"],"articleSection":["all news","Parties"],"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"CommentAction","name":"Comment","target":["https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/parties\/apc-fires-back-at-kofa-rejects-reconciliation-between-kwankwaso-ganduje#respond"]}]},{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/parties\/apc-fires-back-at-kofa-rejects-reconciliation-between-kwankwaso-ganduje","url":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/parties\/apc-fires-back-at-kofa-rejects-reconciliation-between-kwankwaso-ganduje","name":"APC fires back at Kofa, rejects reconciliation between Kwankwaso, Ganduje - Nigeria","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/#website"},"primaryImageOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/parties\/apc-fires-back-at-kofa-rejects-reconciliation-between-kwankwaso-ganduje#primaryimage"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/parties\/apc-fires-back-at-kofa-rejects-reconciliation-between-kwankwaso-ganduje#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sites\/3\/2025\/01\/sm_1737273948.826683.jpg","datePublished":"2025-01-19T10:22:08+00:00","dateModified":"2025-01-24T18:56:34+00:00","author":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb"},"description":"The Kano State chapter of the All Progressives Congress, APC, has stated that the efforts made by Abdulmumin Jibrin Kofa ...","breadcrumb":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/parties\/apc-fires-back-at-kofa-rejects-reconciliation-between-kwankwaso-ganduje#breadcrumb"},"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/parties\/apc-fires-back-at-kofa-rejects-reconciliation-between-kwankwaso-ganduje"]}]},{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/parties\/apc-fires-back-at-kofa-rejects-reconciliation-between-kwankwaso-ganduje#primaryimage","url":"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sites\/3\/2025\/01\/sm_1737273948.826683.jpg","contentUrl":"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sites\/3\/2025\/01\/sm_1737273948.826683.jpg","width":1000,"height":575,"caption":"APC fires back at Kofa, rejects reconciliation between Kwankwaso, Ganduje"},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/parties\/apc-fires-back-at-kofa-rejects-reconciliation-between-kwankwaso-ganduje#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"APC fires back at Kofa, rejects reconciliation between Kwankwaso, Ganduje"}]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/#website","url":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/","name":"Africa Press | Nigeria | Homepage","description":"Just another Africa News Agency Sites site","potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/?s={search_term_string}"},"query-input":{"@type":"PropertyValueSpecification","valueRequired":true,"valueName":"search_term_string"}}],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"Person","@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb","name":"cfeditoren","url":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/author\/cfeditoren"}]}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146701","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/84"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=146701"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146701\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/146700"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=146701"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=146701"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=146701"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}