Ganduje’s resignation policy

Dr. Abdullahi Umar Ganduje, former president of the All Progressives Congress (APC), resigned last week, citing health challenges as a reason. Ganduje’s resignation came to many Nigerians as a surprise. On February 25 of this year, after 18 months without keeping the meeting of the National Executive Council (NEC) and followed by a barrage of criticism by the interested parties of the APC, in particular Salihu Lukman, Nasiru El-Rufai and Kayode Faymi, Ganduje have summoned the meeting of the NEC. During the meeting, the president of the Progressive Governors Forum, the Governor hopes that Ozodimma of the State of Imo saved his head through a vote of confidence on the leadership of the Ganduje.

Barely five months after the meeting of the NEC, in what seems to be another political exchange, Ganduje had to give up his appointment to pave the way to the birth of the vice -president of the deputy (North), Dolari Ali, to take on the acting capacity pending the national convention, who provided for on November 20. The national president had to resign.

Abdullahi Adamu is believed, which comes from the state of Nasarawa in the northern geopolitical area of ​​the north approved Ahmed Lawal, the then president of the Senate, as a candidate for consent for the presidential elections of 2023 Kaduna. It was only el-Roman not to appear in the Tinubu Administration.

When Ganduje was appointed national president, despite the moral background he was transporting or the accusations of corruption against him, the president Tinubu looked on the other side and allowed him to emerge. The APC under Ganduje has won many cycle elections and has brought several governors and some members of the National Assembly to its turn through the cross -stage stage. Given this impressive record, political observers have yet to deal with the reason behind the sudden resignations of Ganduje.

The Caucus meeting of the north-eastern APC held recently in Gombe has been involved in crisis. It was said that the then national president Ganduje and the North-East vice-president had approved Tinubu, dropping the vice-president Kashim Shettimo. We wanted the intervention of the security agents to save Ganduje from being lynched by Shettimo supporters. Some Nigerians believe that Ganduje should have trampled on the fingers of the powerful forces, including Shettimo, hence its abrupt resignation.

Another story connects the fall of the former national president to the recent primary elections of the BWARI area of ​​the Bwari area in which there are accusations of corruption against him. Ganduje has also been accused of intruding into south-east politics, in particular the recent government primary of the state of Anambra for the next elections. It has also been reported that Ganduje is wedge with the governor Hyacinth at the Benue State against the faction of the secretary to the government of the Federation (SGF), Senator George Akume.

Another narrative puts the exit or fall of Ganduje in a political strategy deliberated to attract his foreign political sex, Rabi’u Musa Kwankwaso, in the APC. Ganduje was deputy governor of Kwankwaso until 2015, when, in his support, he succeeded Kwankwaso as the governor of the state of Kano.

However, Ganduje fell with Kwankwaso and became rivals. Since then, there has been no lost love between the duo. Politically speaking, Kwankwaso is believed to have control over Kano’s policy. This is evident in its superlative performance in the 2023 presidential elections in which the State won the presidential candidate of the new Nigeria People’s Party (NNPP) as the presidential candidate. Kwankwaso went on to win the government elections for his political break, Abbar Kabiru Yusuf.

With the APC strengthening its machinery and receives many deserters from opposition parties, Kwankwaso is courted by the party to power. Do Ganduje’s resignation have to do with the expected defection of Kwankwaso? Are Ganduje resignation part of the conditions for Kwankwaso to join the APC? With the exit without Ganduje ceremonies, the Nigerians should expect more political exchanges while the country heads towards the general elections of 2027.