50,000 members of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Kano have petitioned President Bola Ahmed Tinubu, APC National Chairman Abdullahi Ganduje, and Senate President Godswill Akpabio, opposing the nomination of Yusuf Abdullahi Ata as a ministerial candidate.
The group revealed to newsmen that they have compiled signatures from members across Kano, which will be submitted to the President and the Senate on Monday.
Speaking on behalf of the group, Barrister Abubakar stated that they would be taking their grievances directly to the National Assembly and the APC headquarters to formally submit the petition.
“We are mobilizing 50,000 APC members from Kano who have signed this petition against Ata’s nomination as a minister,” he said.
The group’s chairman argued that Ata lacks the qualifications to represent Kano State in the Federal Executive Council, pointing to what he described as “anti-party activities” during the 2023 elections and alleged incompetence.
“It would be recalled that Ata was impeached as the Speaker of the Kano State House of Assembly over incompetence,” he said. “During the presidential election, he failed to deliver his polling unit to the APC, and his relationships with APC stakeholders in the state, as well as his constituents, have been strained—there was even an attempt to recall him from the State Assembly.”
The chairman further noted, “It took the intervention of then-Governor Ganduje and Alhaji Aminu Dantata to halt the recall process.”
He concluded, “The President could consider replacing Abdullahi Gwarzo with a more politically influential figure who has served the party, such as Nasiru Yusuf Gawuna, Bashir Garba Lado, or the State Party Chairman, Abdullahi Abbas. Ata does not adequately represent our party or the good people of Kano State.”
