{"id":154021,"date":"2025-03-05T09:02:27","date_gmt":"2025-03-05T08:02:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/uncategorized\/my-issue-with-kwankwaso-beyond-our-control-shekarau"},"modified":"2025-03-10T23:23:07","modified_gmt":"2025-03-10T22:23:07","slug":"my-issue-with-kwankwaso-beyond-our-control-shekarau","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/parties\/my-issue-with-kwankwaso-beyond-our-control-shekarau","title":{"rendered":"My issue with Kwankwaso beyond our control \u2013 Shekarau"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong>Africa-Press &#8211; Nigeria. <\/strong><\/span>Former Kano State governor, Ibrahim Shekarau, has dismissed claims of a long-standing rift between him and former Governor Rabiu Musa Kwankwaso, insisting that their political differences were shaped by external circumstances rather than personal animosity.<\/p>\n<p>In a widely circulated video interview with an online media platform, Shekarau clarified that neither he nor Kwankwaso was responsible for past political disagreements.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHonestly, I believe that Kwankwaso and I have no issue sitting together under one roof. In everything that happened, neither he nor I was at fault,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Shekarau recounted key moments in their political history, particularly Kwankwaso\u2019s defection from the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) to the All Progressives Congress (APC) alongside governors from Sokoto, Adamawa, and Rivers states. He, however, criticized the APC\u2019s interim leadership\u2014comprising Bisi Akande, Muhammadu Buhari, and Bola Tinubu\u2014for failing to ensure fairness in the party\u2019s power-sharing structure.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn Kano, the All Nigeria Peoples Party (ANPP) made up 80 per cent of the APC structure, but because Kwankwaso was a sitting governor, he was allocated 60 per cent of the party leadership, which we saw as an injustice,\u201d Shekarau explained.<\/p>\n<p>Drawing an analogy, he likened the situation to a guest demanding a choice of rooms in a house built by others.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt doesn\u2019t work like that. That\u2019s why we refused to be part of such injustice,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p>He also pointed to similar experiences within the PDP and the New Nigeria Peoples Party (NNPP), stressing that Kwankwaso was not personally to blame in any of these instances, as party leaderships made the final decisions.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEven now, Kwankwaso and I still sit down and discuss issues. We have never said we won\u2019t unite under one umbrella. Everything is in God\u2019s hands,\u201d Shekarau stated, adding that his and Kwankwaso\u2019s political trajectories were determined by fate.<\/p>\n<p>He further emphasized that he, Kwankwaso, and Abdullahi Ganduje were no different from other Kano residents.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere are many people ahead of us in all aspects of life, but God chose us,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Amid recent political realignments in Kano, there have been efforts to reconcile the trio of Kwankwaso, Ganduje, and Shekarau.<\/p>\n<p>A former APC senatorial candidate for Kano Central, Alhaji Abdulsalam Abdulkarim Zaura, popularly known as AA Zaura, has publicly expressed his commitment to bringing the three leaders together.<\/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. Former Kano State governor, Ibrahim Shekarau, has dismissed claims of a long-standing rift between him and former Governor Rabiu Musa Kwankwaso, insisting that their political differences were shaped by external circumstances rather than personal animosity. In a widely circulated video interview with an online media platform, Shekarau clarified that neither he nor [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":154020,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,16],"tags":[2021,254,5578],"class_list":["post-154021","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-parties","tag-kwankwaso","tag-nigeria","tag-shekarau"],"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>My issue with Kwankwaso beyond our control \u2013 Shekarau - Nigeria<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Former Kano State governor, Ibrahim Shekarau, has dismissed claims of a long-standing rift between him and former Govern ...\" \/>\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\/my-issue-with-kwankwaso-beyond-our-control-shekarau\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"My issue with Kwankwaso beyond our control \u2013 Shekarau\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Former Kano State governor, Ibrahim Shekarau, has dismissed claims of a long-standing rift between him and former Govern ...\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/parties\/my-issue-with-kwankwaso-beyond-our-control-shekarau\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Nigeria\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2025-03-05T08:02:27+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2025-03-10T22:23:07+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sites\/3\/2025\/03\/sm_1741152892.999288.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"1247\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"1247\" \/>\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\/my-issue-with-kwankwaso-beyond-our-control-shekarau#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/parties\/my-issue-with-kwankwaso-beyond-our-control-shekarau\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"cfeditoren\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb\"},\"headline\":\"My issue with Kwankwaso beyond our control \u2013 Shekarau\",\"datePublished\":\"2025-03-05T08:02:27+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2025-03-10T22:23:07+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/parties\/my-issue-with-kwankwaso-beyond-our-control-shekarau\"},\"wordCount\":405,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/parties\/my-issue-with-kwankwaso-beyond-our-control-shekarau#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sites\/3\/2025\/03\/sm_1741152892.999288.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"Kwankwaso\",\"Nigeria\",\"Shekarau\"],\"articleSection\":[\"all news\",\"Parties\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/parties\/my-issue-with-kwankwaso-beyond-our-control-shekarau#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/parties\/my-issue-with-kwankwaso-beyond-our-control-shekarau\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/parties\/my-issue-with-kwankwaso-beyond-our-control-shekarau\",\"name\":\"My issue with Kwankwaso beyond our control \u2013 Shekarau - 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