‘Abba Yusuf remains gov candidate in Kano’

Abba Yusuf remains the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) governorship candidate in Kano, a chieftain of the Kwankwassiyya movement Alhaji Aminu Abdulsalam has stated.

Abdulsalam, a Commissioner in the defunct administration of Gov. Rabi’u Kwankwaso of the state, made the call while speaking to newsmen in Kano yesterday.

“Alhaji Abba Kabir Yusuf remains the PDP governorship candidate for the state because we had a meeting with the National Chairman of the party and nothing of that nature was discussed,” he said.

According to him, members of the PDP in the state and the country would continue to remain united in spite of the crisis bedeviling the party.

Abdulsalam expressed optimism that the PDP in Kano State would wrest power from the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) in the 2019 general elections.

“It is a normal thing for political parties to face such challenges whenever they come to hold primary elections as it is not only he PDP that is bedeviled by such problems,” he said.

The National Leadership of the PDP had dissociated itself from the governorship primary election conducted in Kano on Monday, Oct 1, during which Abba Yusuf emerged as the party’s governorship candidate.