Ganduje Determined to End Politics of Bitterness, Says Aide
Declares rapprochement genuine
The National Chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Abdullahi Ganduje, has vowed to ensure complete existence of political sanity and decorum in the country and also put an end to the politics of rancour and bitterness.
Ganduje, who stated this in a statement yesterday by his Senior Special Assistant on Public Enlightenment, Oliver Okpala, after his call on the leaders of New Nigeria Peoples Party (NNPP) to join the ruling APC was rejected, added that his recent rapprochement was genuine.
Ganduje had called on the Kano State Governor, Abba Yusuf Kabir, the national leader of the NNPP, Senator Rabiu Kwankwaso, and a former governor of the state, Senator Ibrahim Shekarau, to join the ruling party in building the nation.
"This is courageous and exemplary as Dr. Ganduje called on them to toe the path of reconciliation irrespective of political differences.
"Even though the Kano State Governor, Abba Kabir Yusuf, has dismissed the invitation from Ganduje, the move should be appreciated and encouraged, given our national trajectory of bad politics, which has left our country prostate in the past.
"This is the first time the chairman of a ruling political party in the country has exhibited such maturity, taking such approach and calling for a united front.
"It is a call to avoid bitterness and rancour, it is a call for politicians to work together as Nigerians and to see each other as brothers and sisters," he said.
He therefore, said the invitation extended by to Kano’s top politicians to join the APC, was done in good faith, and not an agenda of the ruling party to turn Nigeria to a one-patty state as being speculated in some quarters.
"Abdullahi Ganduje will not rest until he ensures complete existence of political sanity and decorum in the country and puts an end to the politics of rancour and bitterness.
"From his comments, it is important that the intention of his call should not be misconstrued.
"It should be seen as what it is, an invitation from a matured politician without guile, aimed at building the much needed synergy that Nigeria needs to surmount it's multifaceted challenges."
Okpala maintained that Ganduje now represented a new kind of politics devoid of bitterness, which he has continued to promote since he took over the leadership of the party.