The All Progressives Congress (APC) National Executive Committee (NEC) on Thursday elected former Kano State Governor Abdullahi Ganduje as the party’s National Chairman.
The decision was made at the NEC meeting, which President Bola Tinubu and others attended.
Ganduje took over on Thursday after Abdullahi Adamu resigned due to financial allegations leveled against him.
Ganduje received President Tinubu’s backing after becoming the ruling party’s National Chairman.
In this article, Visitodell takes a look at some interesting facts about Ganduje, the new National Chairman of the ruling party, APC.
1. Ganduje was born in 1949 to a Fulani family in the Kano State town of Ganduje, Dawakin Tofa Local Government Area.
2. He received a Bachelor’s degree in Science Education from Ahmadu Bello University in Zaria, Kaduna State, in 1975.
3. He received a Master’s degree in Applied Educational Psychology from Bayero University Kano in 1979.
4. Ganduje returned to Ahmadu Bello University for a Master of Public Administration degree from 1984 to 1985, and then earned a doctorate in Public Administration from the University of Ibadan in 1993.
5. During the Second Republic, Ganduje joined the National Party of Nigeria and served as Kano State Assistant Secretary from 1979 to 1980.
6. In 1994, he was appointed Kano State Commissioner of the Ministry of Works, Housing, and Transport.
7. In 1998, he joined the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and ran for governor, but was defeated by Rabiu Musa Kwankwaso.
8. He later joined the All Progressives Congress alongside Kwakwanso in 2014.
9. He served as deputy to Kwakwanso, his political godfather, from 1999 to 2003 and again from 2011 to 2015.
10. He succeeded Kwakwanso as governor of Kano State in May 2015, and he was re-elected in 2019 for a second term.
11. In 2018, a disturbing footage was released, purporting to show Governor Umar Ganduje pocketing large sums of money alleged to be bribe payments from public works contractors.
The Kano State governor was spotted collecting the money before folding them inside his white frock, “babanriga,” in one of a series of alleged dubious deals conducted over several months.
The site published the first collection of at least 15 clips that it has in its hands on Sunday afternoon.The two-minute video was shot in 2017 as part of a sting operation to shine a light on the governor’s apparent proclivity for contract racketeering, according to Daily Nigerian.
The governor, however, called the video “cloned” and threatened the publisher with a massive lawsuit.
