(Press Release) A frontline political group, made up of a conglomeration of support affiliates, whose ethos and core-values, stand align with those of Alh. Abdullahi Umar Ganduje, PhD, standing for justice, equity, fairness and non-violence in national political intrests’aggregation, has condemned in very strong terms, the unwarranted wave of hooliganism, wild and uncultured street-behavior, exhibited in at the just concluded, All Progressives Congress {APC} party North-East Zonal Meeting, in Gombe, the Gombe State capital.
The group, known as the Coalition for Ganduje Support Groups, {CGSG} , speaking through its National Coordinator, Alhaji Abdulrahaman Salihu, described the brand of urban violence unleashed on well-respected, responsible and innocent elder statesmen as well as significant other citizens from the North-East geo political zone, apart from being barbaric and senseless, amounts to public hysteria.
Alhaji Abdulrahaman Salihu, stated that there were no cogent and verifiable reasons that would have necessitated the wild outburst of emotions by the rag-tagged, uncivilized and uneducated thugs, who he said, ‘’due to crass ignorance and senselessness behavior-discrepancies, resorted to lawlessness and urban violence, for merely not hearing the name of their sponsor and principal, either mentioned or mouthed by all the APC Executive Governors, who spoke at the zonal gathering but that rather went ahead to mention only the name of President Bola Ahmed Tinubu, GCFR , as the sole candidate running for the 2027 presidential polls, leaving out the name of Vice President Kashim Shettima, as a joint-ticket beneficiary’’.
According to Alh. Abdulrahman Salishu, ‘’ all the three All Progressives Congress Executive Governors, from the North-East geo-political zone, who spoke at the event, have full justifications, to espouse their thoughts and inner feelings, the way they deem fit and can’t be coerced by anybody to determine how their public-speech -processes, should be or must be’’.
He explained that, ‘’ as topnotch members of APC and eminent political leadership figures, who came in their constitutional capacities, to endorse, President Bola Ahmed Tinubu, GCFR, whether or not the name of the Vice President, is mentioned, does add or subtract from the fact that President Bola Ahmed Tinubu, won the 2023 Presidential elections, on the joint ticket by having Vice President Kashim Shettima as his running mate then, who Insha Allah SWT, is today the Vice – President, Federal Republic of Nigeria’’.
Alh. Abdulrahaman Salihu, further pointed out that, ‘’ nothing was wrong in the APC Governors, alongside other speakers at the zonal meeting not mentioning the name of the Vice President, while they were individually and collectively, endorsing President Bola Ahmed Tinubu, around whom, every other Nigerian, defers to. It is the prerogative of the President, Commander-In-Chief, of the Armed Forces, Federal Republic of Nigeria’’.
Regrettably, Abdulrahman Salihu, recalls, ‘’ the physical attack on the APC North – East Zonal Chairman, Alhaji Salisu Mustapha, manhandling him as well as throwing sachet-water pieces on the National Chairman of the APC, His Excellency, Alh. Abdullahi Umar Ganduje, PhD, is unacceptable and condemnable’’