I read an article on Page 9 of Blueprint of Tuesday, November 2, 2021, written by one Malam Rijiyar Lemo about the interview granted to Arise Television on October 30, 2021, by Senator Rabi’u Musa Kwankwaso, former governor of Kano state for eight years. I am not a political fan of Kwankwaso even though we were asked to vote for Read More
I was in Abuja when a friend of mine from Lagos gave me a call just to draw my attention to the Morning Show programme on Arise TV in which the former governor of Kano state, Senator Rabi’u Musa Kwankwaso, was interviewed. I believe his decision to place that call was informed by the fact that he had known me to be a fan Read More
One needs to know whether the Kano State Government House is for sale. This is the controversy that needs immediate clarification. The first civilian governor of Kano state, Late Muhammadu Abubakar Rimi, was the most formidable politician in the state’s history of. Rimi did not ask to contest for governor. His desire was to contest the senatorial slot which was Read More
A chieftain of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) and Director General of the Progressive Governors Forum (PGF) Salihu Moh Lukman, has warned against ethnic and religious profiling in the country, even as he challenged those who claimed to have evidences to make it public. The PGF specifically challenged the Benue state governor Samuel Ortom and others in the opposition Read More
Isa Bello Ja, actor and politician, was born about 67 years ago in Kano City. He tells ALIYU ASKIRA in this interview that he started acting in Television Drama Series about 44 years ago and that because he does not accept roles that will portray him as a wayward person, his admirers and colleagues call him Isa Bello Ja Dattijon Read More
Hamisu Lamido Iyantama is an insurance broker, film producer, script writer, textile merchant, social commentator, politician and proprietor of a film academy probably. He tells ALIYU ASKIRA in this interview that it was one Danazumi Babachedi that introduced him into acting. Where had Hamisu Iyantama been? Well, actually I was introduced into film acting by Danazumi Babachede because according to Read More
It’s apparent that most Nigerians, chiefly members of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC), are fundamentally preoccupied and concerned about the 2023 elections and beyond while heedless of the turbulence and inherent struggles ahead. But, to many of us, who might have genuine faith and interest in the headway of the APC and the nation as a whole, what concerns Read More
Ahead of the 2023 general elections, a pro-democracy group, Bala Abdulkadir Muhammad vanguard, BAM-V, has begun canvassing support for the Bauchi State governor, Bala Mohammed, saying that the former Senator possesses what it takes to lead Nigeria. Addressing newsmen on Sunday the Kano State chapter of the movement, Chairman of the Chapter, Adnan Mukhtar-Adam, noted that Mr Mohammed has the Read More
Sometime ago, in a piece titled, ‘’Here they go again, our politicians’’, I wrote inter alia, “Why is it that whenever an election date is drawing near, we see our politicians exhibiting their shenanigans, intrigues, vile characteristics to undo one another, even for those of them in the same ‘family’, nay party?”. As it is, this trait of our politicians Read More
The Governor of Kano state, Abdullahi Umar Ganduje, has expressed sadness over the death of Alhaji Musa Saleh-Kwankwaso, the father of former governor Rabiu Kwankwaso. Ganduje, in a condolence message by his Chief Press Secretary, Mr Abba Anwar, Friday in Kano, described Saleh-Kwankwaso’s death as a great lost, not only to his family, but to the entire state. The News Read More
The special adviser to the Kano state governor on media and strategy, Comrade Salihu Tanko Yakasai, in this interview with ALIYU ASKIRA reveals why Governor Abdullahi Umar Ganduje is not interested in probing former Governor Rabiu Musa Kwankwaso as well as Ganduje’s achievements so far. Recently, some members of the Kwankwasiyya political group led by Comrade Aminu Abdulsalam Gwarzo addressed Read More
The electoral ‘sword of Damocles’ was dangled on Ibrahim Dankwambo and Abiola Ajimobi, both governors of Gombe and Oyo states respectively as they failed to win their senatorial bids. Dankwambo of the Peoples Democratic Party lost the Gombe North senatorial seat to Sa’idu Alkali, the All Progressives Congress candidate , while Ajimobi, who contested on the platform of the Read More
Kano, the political headquarters of Northern Nigeria was agog yesterday in a fanfare atmosphere. The occasion? Over 5,000 members of the Kwankwasiyya movement decamped from the PDP to join the APC. This is just another in a series of defection we have witnessed in the Country since the beginning of this year. It amazes me when I hear people say Read More
Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has submitted the name of Abba Yusuf the son-in-law of the former governor of Kano State, Senator Rabiu Kwankwaso, to the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) as the party’s gubernatorial candidate. According to source at the party headquarters in Abuja, Yusuf was among the list of candidates submitted to the electoral body in Abuja, Thursday, last Read More
It is an established precedence in our democratic culture that whenever elections approach, the atmosphere would be saturated with self-styled prophesies, postulations and self-promotional media hype. In another angle, cross carpeting by politicians is equally taking the center stage all due to inordinate lust and desperation to occupy political positions. Yes, it’s desperation shrouded by the abridgement of internal democracy Read More
Vice President Yemi Osinbajo has met with members of the new PDP bloc of the governing All Progressives Congress (APC). The meeting, which took place yesterday, held behind closed doors inside vice-president’s Aguda residence, at the presidential villa, Abuja. The nPDP had requested a meeting with President Muhammadu Buhari after cataloguing the group’s grievances against the APC administration. Blueprint gathered Read More
One of the building blocks of the All Progressives Congress (APC), the New Peoples Democratic Party (nPDP) has fired a letter to the party’s National Chairman, Chief John Odigie-Oyegun, alleging marginalization. In this report, ABDULRAHMAN ZAKARI’YAU examines the issues that are threatening to implode the ruling APC For a long time, the move has been widely anticipated because all seems Read More
Barely 10 months to the presidential election in 2019, some serious and others not too serious presidential aspirants have started jostling for the job of incumbent President, Muhammadu Buhari. PATRICK ANDREW writes Not a few were in suspense over the likelihood of President Muhammadu Buhari re-contesting for the exalted office he currently occupies. Severally, he has said that he will Read More
Of recent, I became fully involved in the activities of President Muhammadu Buhari, I was supporting many of his policies, even though, it doesn’t stops me from criticizing him but I see no reason why I should not work and support the success of a government that I worked in seeing its emergence a reality. When the APC decided to Read More
Kano State Commissioner for Rural Development, Honourable Musa Iliyasu Kwankwaso, has dismissed the aspiration of former Kano State Governor, Senator Rabiu Musa Kwankwaso, to contest for the presidency in 2019 as a huge joke. The commissioner, who recently defected from the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) to the ruling All Progressive Congress (APC) said former Governor Kwankwaso lacks the capacity Read More
Ahead of the 2019 general election, a group, the Amalgamated Igbo Political Pressure Group (AIPPG) has given the nod to the candidature of former governor of Kano state, Sen Rabiu Kwankwaso. In a statement signed by its National coordinator, Lady Rosemary Ukiwe and National secretary, Hon Romanus Azubuike respectively, the group noted that they were convinced that the former Kano Read More
The hostile political relationship between Kano state governor, Umar Ganduje and his predecessor, Rabiu Musa Kwankwaso is now a major cause of worry for Kano indigenes and Nigerians in general. However its effect have been seen rubbing off on the infamous Kano underage voting picture and videos which was circulating in the public sphere recently, hence threatening the integrity of Read More
Promises to resign if he fails A former governor of Kano state and the senator representing Kano-central, Rabiu Musa Kwankwaso, has declared his intention to run for president in next year’s elections, vowing to resign and never to seek second term if he failed to deliver on his promises. Kwankwaso, who promised to fi x the country “within a Read More
Former governor of Kano state and Senator representing Kano central, Rabiu Musa Kwankwaso has declared his intention to contest the 2019 presidential election, saying he will resign and refuse to seek a second term if he fail to deliver on his promises. Kwankwaso, who promised to fix Nigeria within a very short term added that nobody else could do this. Read More
Governor Abdullahi Umar Ganduje of Kano state and his predecessor, Senator Rabiu Musa Kwankwaso were political soul mates since 1999. As governor, Ganduje was Kwankwaso’s deputy and when the latter became Minister of Defence, Ganduje was Special Assistant. When Kwankwaso staged a comeback in 2011 as governor, Ganduje was again his deputy. In 2015, Ganduje succeeded his boss but almost Read More
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