Kwankwaso says under "no pressure"
to quit By: Augustine Osayande 2014-10-22 09:00 Abuja - Kano State Governor and a
presidential aspirant of the All People
Congress, Rabiu Kwankwaso, has
denied reports the is under pressure to
step down for other aspirants of the
party. “I’m not under any pressure to step
down for anybody. In fact, nobody
asked me to step down for anybody and
doing that will not be even good for the
party," he said. "People are used to either small parties
or let me say medium-sized parties
where people sit down and choose
somebody in a room. Now we are
talking about APC mega party which is
not ANPP, CPC, APGA or CAN,” he added. He said people should look at example
of the ruling People Democratic Party
where from 1999 to 2011, presidential
aspirants had to go for primary
elections not arranged election. Also Read: Kate Henshaw picks up nomination form "It’s a collection of all and we always
tell people to look at the example of
PDP. Even when we have sitting
presidents in 2003 and 2011 there were
elections, serious elections. And that’s
why the PDP has been winning all along and all others who are making arranged
elections are losing elections.” Kwankwaso added that the ruling party
had decided to do their own primary in
the Villa and the APC was going to the
field. “That shows us clearly that APC will win
elections and the PDP will lose in 2015. I
believe that since this party is very
strong, all candidates should go round
the country and campaign, bring in
more hands, more people. And that’s exactly what we are doing." He was confident ahead of the poll. "One of the advantages that I have is
that it is not only APC that will vote, the
PDP will also vote for me in the general
elections.” - CAJ News