Kano State Governor, Rabiu Musa Kwankwaso, on Tuesday in Kano debunked reports that he is under pressure to drop his presidential ambition for another candidate of the All Progressives Congress, APC.
Other aspirants are former head of state, Gen. Muhammadu Buhari (rtd), former vice president, Atiku Abubakar and the publisher of Leadership Newspapers, Sam Nda Isaiah.
The party’s presidential primary is slated for December 29.
Kwankwaso, while speaking to reporters in his office on Tuesday, urged the APC leadership to avoid the mistake of adopting a consensus presidential candidate, arguing that it will spell doom for the party.
According to him, such arrangement may deny a popular candidate a ticket.
His words: “I am not under any pressure to step down for anybody, in as much as nobody has contacted me to step down, doing that will not augur well for the party.
“You see, so many people are used to either small parties, like medium sized parties, where people sit down and choose somebody in a room.
“Now, we are talking of APC, a mega party, which is not ANPP, which is not CPC, ACN, or APGA or new PDP. I always tell people to look at the example of the PDP since 1999 and in each election, people have to go for primaries, not arranged elections, real election, primary election, even when we have sitting President in 2003 and 2011, there were elections, very serious elections.
“That is why PDP has been winning all along and all others who are involved in stage managing primary elections always lose elections.
“As fate will have it, PDP has now decided to do their own primaries in the Villa, while the APC will hold their’s in the field, which clearly shows that APC will win, while the PDP will lose the elections in 2015”.
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