The Presidency has warned
against dragging the name of President Muhammadu Buhari into the removal of the
Chairman of Kano chapter of the APC, Alhaji Umar Doguwa, from office.
A
presidential spokesman, Malam Garba Shehu, gave the warning in a statement
issued in Abuja on Sunday.
Shehu
described as false, the accusation that Buhari was behind the removal of the
erstwhile All Progressives Congress chairman in Kano State.
The
presidential aide was reacting to the allegations made by a political support
group at a press conference in Kano.
The group named itself “Concerned Members of the APC in Kano
State.”
He
stated that at no time did the president involved himself in the internal conflict
of any APC chapter in the country, and would never do so.
“President
Buhari would not risk his integrity to support one side against the other in
the affairs the APC or any other political party anywhere in the country.
“Anybody
who knows the president’s principles would not believe any allegation linking
Buhari to interference in the election or removal of party leaders across the
country.
He
noted that Buhari was accused in the past of not taking control of the National
Assembly by imposing some people on the legislature as Senate President and
Speaker of the House of Representatives.
Shehu
said that it was ironical that the president would now be accused of abandoning
those principles to order the removal of the chairman.
“I am 100 percent convinced that this group, which is being
associated with the respected senator representing Kano, Rabiu Kwankwaso, did
not seek his permission before dragging President Buhari ’s name into this
matter.
“Kwankwaso
knows President Buhari too well to reduce him to this level,” he said.
The
presidential aide therefore advised the group to stop belittling the person and
office of the president by dragging his name into their local party quarrels.
He
added that it was unfair to attack the president over an issue he knew nothing
about.
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