The Senior Special Assistant on Public Enlightenment to the National Chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Dr Abdullahi Umar Ganduje, Oliver Okpala, has decried the Buba Galadima’s claim in a recent interview that Ganduje has no electoral value.
He said that Galadima had been known as a politician with acute character deficit and treachery.
Okpala wondered how Galadima could say that a man who had been a two-term governor of a very powerful state like Kano and currently chairman of the APC lacks electoral value.
He said: “His statement clearly portrays him as a mischievous personality, politically.
“We know Galadima’s garrulous and weightless antecedents and we are not surprised by his baseless claims.
“He was a well-known member of the Buhari Organisation but always preferred to take skewed positions that made all attempts of the organisation to win election futile. Is that the kind of person who would determine who has electoral value?
“Ganduje is well known, tested and trusted, result-orientated technocrat and politician of high repute, who successful led Kano for two uninterrupted terms.
“He is a man with infallible proof of performance across Kano and beyond. His developmental projects are still littered across Kano State, a testament of his unbroken connection with the people.
“Ganduje is a grassroots politician with results to show. Where are Galadima’s results? He is a barren and outdated politician who has outlived his usefulness.
“Galadima should know that the APC’s ship under the leadership of Ganduje is sailing smoothly and the party has continued to wax stronger under him.
“The same cannot be said of Buba Galadima’s NNPP which has continued to suffer serious lacerations due to an intractable and untreatable factionalisation. Their attempt to hijack the party of Dr Boniface Aniebonam has continued to assault them like an ant-infested faggot.
“Galadima has been known to be a man of acute character deficit and that was why his long-time benefactor, Muhammadu Buhari sacked him.
“Galadima’s antecedents show clearly that he should not be taken seriously.
“But Ganduje is a calculative, strategic and composed leader who knows his onions. He is not perturbed by the baseless claims of Galadima. He remains a political star in Nigeria’s political landscape.”