We lost Kano for supporting Tinubu, now he’s courting Kwankwaso – Ganduje

National chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Dr Abdullahi Ganduje

Ganduje, Masari secret phone conversion over Tinubu/Kwankwaso leaked

A telephone conversation between Kano State Governor Abdullahi Ganduje and Ibrahim Masari, a former placeholder vice presidential candidate of the APC, has leaked.

The discussion was centred around the recent meeting of President-elect Bola Tinubu with Rabiu Kwankwaso, presidential candidate of the New Nigeria People’s Party (NNPP).

The two APC leaders lamented that their support for Tinubu to win the presidential poll made them to lose Kano State governorship election to the NNPP.

They are angered that the president-elect now saw Kwankwaso as an ally.

Tinubu and Kwankwaso met for four hours in France and there are speculations of the NNPP presidential candidate joining the incoming cabinet.

In the audio, the governor was heard lamenting being treated unfairly by the president-elect by meeting with Kwankwaso.

Ganduje said even though Masari had told him of the possibility of such meeting, there was nothing he could have done about it.

“But at that time, you could have spoken with him (Tinubu). You can could him and talk to him,” Masari said.

The governor then said, “What could I have told him? Now he (Tinubu) is seeing Kwankwaso as an alternative to us? No problem. Because we don’t have a government? And it’s even because of him (Tinubu) we lost the government anyway.

“Even if he will see him (Kwankwaso), he ought to have called us too. Or don’t you understand, even if symbolically.”

In the audio, Masari, an ally of Tinubu, was then heard pacifying Ganduje and urging him not to be angry over the development.

He asked the governor to remain calm until he visits Tinubu on Thursday and until they meet in Abuja.

“And all these things are from God. And the calculation that he is doing is not even accurate… And this man, how did he end up with Jonathan?” Ganduje said.

The governor reportedly left Kano for Abuja Friday and is expected to meet with Masari during the weekend before holding talks with the president-elect, who is due to return to the country any moment from now.