Senators-Elect endorse Gov Kwankwanso as Prospective Senate President
The race for the title of Senate president has already begun among senators-elect as senators-elect of the All Progressives Congress from Kano State have urged their incoming colleagues to support Governor Rabiu Kwankwaso for the position after inauguration.
Speaking on behalf of the Kano state senators-elect, in Abuja, on Thursday, Barau Jibrin, who is the Senator-elect for Kano North, said the party, the North West zone, and the nation in general, stood to gain from Kwankwaso’s experience as a former member of the House of Representatives and two-time governor of Kano state.
He said, “I want to appeal to my fellow members of the APC and to my colleagues in the next Senate to endorse Dr. Rabiu Musa Kwankwaso, for any position that is meant for the North-west region in the upper house.
“He (Kwankwaso) was a former Deputy Speaker of the Federal House of Representatives and two time governor of the most populous state in Nigeria. It is noteworthy that he came second in the presidential primary of the All Progressive Congress, which took place in Lagos late last year.
“After he was defeated, he exhibited the spirit of sportsmanship by coming out fully to help the party win the presidential elections.”
He also extolled the governor’s influence among his people as his state delivered the highest number of votes for the APC during the just concluded Presidential, and the party also won all the 24 seats of the Federal House of Representatives and all the three senatorial seats available in the state National Assembly elections.
He said: “We feel that by virtue of all what he did and the fact he is an accomplished legislator and in order to further encourage the people of Kano State to continue to support the All Progressive Congress, we feel it will be good to allow him occupy any of the positions meant for the region.”
