Abacha’s Son Is Kano CPC Gov Candidate

Son of former Head of state, General Sani Abacha, Mohammed, has clinched the Congress for Progressive Change, CPC, governorship ticket for Kano State.

Abacha, who defeated four other contestants polled 144, 000 votes, winning in about 41 Local Government Areas of the state.

For military administrator of Kaduna State and ADC to General Muhammadu Buhari (retd) when he was Military Head of State, Brigadier-General Lawal Ja’afaru  Isah (retd) came second with 78,671 votes.

The party’s national chairman, Senator Rufai Sani Hanga polled 45,618, followed by former Deputy Governor of Kano State during Ibrahim Shekarau’s first-term,  Engr. Magaji Abdullahi who got 5, 795 votes, while Alhaji Auwalu Anwar, an educationist came last with 3,410 votes.

Announcing the result early this morning after the tension-soaked exercise that lasted for almost three days, chairman of the Governorship Electoral  Committee, Prof. Mohammed Suleiman urged all the contestants to accept the result in good faith and join hands with the winner to get victory for the party  in the April polls.

In his acceptance speech, Mohammed Abacha dedicated his victory to God and his party men, while pleading with other contestants to join hands with him so as  to ensure victory for the party, at all levels in the forthcoming general elections.

“We have an Herculean challenge before us and all we need to do now is to bury the hatchet and see how we can move the party forward so that the people of  Kano can restore confidence in us. CPC is a party to beat in the state and we all have a duty to make it work,” Abacha said.

The chairman of the party in the state, Alhaji Dan Azumi Gwarzo in his reaction described the governorship primaries as “free, fair and transparent,” adding  that though there were little hiccups, “they were immediately addressed.”

As at the time of filing this report, none of the defeated contestants were available to speak to our correspondent on the outcome of the exercise as their  cell-phones were switched off.

— Maduabuchi Nmeribeh/Kano

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