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2023: Ganduje Refuses To Endorse Amaechi For Presidency

Kano State Governor Abdullahi Ganduje has declined to support Rotimi Amaechi, the former Minister of Transport, for the presidency in 2023.

On Wednesday, Amaechi paid a visit to Kano as part of his preparations for the All Progressives Congress’ presidential primary.

The former minister had resigned from President Major General Muhammadu Buhari’s (retd.) cabinet in order to run for president under the APC platform.

At the meeting, with other APC stakeholders present, Ganduje said Kano as a “swing state, will continue to swing.”

He added that Amaechi would know where the state eventually swung to at the right time.

NEWS DIRECT gathered that Amaechi, who had told the governor that the people in the APC already knew where Ganduje’s loyalty was, added that he was in Kano to convince him that he was the most qualified among the aspirants.

NEWS DIRECT reported that when Amaechi visited the Governor of Lagos State, Babajide Sanwo-Olu, he was equally not endorsed as the governor told him former Governor Bola Tinubu was their rallying point.

Ganduje is also known to be an ally of Tinubu, who is also aspiring for the presidency.

Meanwhile, Amaechi said he was more qualified than Tinubu, noting that the former Lagos governor had never been a minister, and even as a lawmaker, Tinubu only served for a few months.

He equally noted that he was more qualified than Vice President Yemi Osinbajo, adding that while Osinbajo was a commissioner in Lagos, he was already a Speaker of Rivers State House of Assembly.

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