KWANKWASO NOT STEPPING DOWN FOR BUHARI!!!

2015 PRESIDENCY: Why APC will defeat PDP ––Kwankwaso

Kano State Governor Rabiu Musa Kwankwaso has explained why the All Progressives Congress (APC) will win next year’s presidential election.

Kwankwaso, who is a former Deputy Speaker of the House of Reps and one time Defence Minister, is rounding off his second tenure in office as Kano State governor.

According to him, the fact that the APC is set to organise a transparent primary to pick its candidate will swing the votes in its favour. He said PDP won previous presidential elections since 1999 because the party was inclusive and ran open primaries to pick its candidates.

Kwankwaso told reporters in his office:

“As fate will have it, the PDP has now decided to do their own presidential primaries in the (Aso) Villa while the APC will hold its own on the field, which clearly shows that the APC will win the elections, while the PDP will lose the election in 2015.”

On the possibility of a consensus, the governor maintained that the party should be made very strong, stressing that all aspirants should go round the country and campaign to win the electorate, which is exactly what they were doing.

The party will hold its primary on December 2.

Kwankwaso said: “I am not under 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 or medium sized parties, where people sit down and choose somebody in a room. Now, we are talking of APC 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 went for primaries, not arranged elections, real election, primary election. Even when we had a sitting President in 2003 and 2011, there were primaries elections, very serious elections and that is why the PDP won all along and all others who are involved in stage managing primary elections always lost elections."

Kwankwaso, who is optimistic of mass defections from PDP to APC “within the shortest possible time, said “my people and my friends are just waiting for me to declare, and after that has happened, my friends in the PDP will vote for me”.