On the recent outburst of a Kano-based chieftain of the party about President Muhammadu Buhari’s administration, the deputy national chairman the All Progressive Congress APC, Lawal Shuaibu, said: “that man who claimed to be our chairman in Kano is unknown to us as a party”.
“Go to the directorate of organisation of our party here and demand to know who our state chairman there is; if you check our data base you will see the name of our state chairman in Kano state,” he said.
“That person who made that statement is not our member; we actually don’t even know him, to be very honest.”
He announced that a committee had been set up to review the party’s constitution ahead of a mini-convention.
Critical Times recalled that the factional chairman of the All Progressives Congress, APC, in Kano State, Hussain Mairiga, came down hard on President Muhammadu Buhari, describing him as a total failure.
Mairiga, who spoke with journalists in Kano, said “from the looks of things, President Buhari has betrayed the confidence of the Nigerian masses who voted for him massively into power.”
The factional chairman said it was not an exaggeration that members of many families in the country go to bed without at least one square meal, while others had fled their homes because they could no longer provide the basic needs of life for their loved ones.
Mairiga, who is known for his bluntness, expressed worry that after one year of the Buhari administration in power, there was nothing to show while poverty in the country had reached an unprecedented level.
He lamented that while a bag of rice now sold for N16, 000, prices of other essentials commodities had tripled.
Mairiga noted with dismay that prices of goods were rising at a time the ordinary man did not have money to make a living.
He reminded Buhari of his campaign promises, stating that he did not like the way the masses were allowed to wallow in destitution and penury.
