2023: Ganduje Picks Preferred Successor, Identity Revealed

<p><strong>Kano State Governor&comma; <a href&equals;"http&colon;&sol;&sol;Openlife&period;ng">Umar Ganduje<&sol;a> has anointed <a href&equals;"http&colon;&sol;&sol;Openlife&period;ng">Nasir Gawuna<&sol;a>&comma; his deputy as the preferred choice of the <a href&equals;"http&colon;&sol;&sol;Openlife&period;ng">All Progressives Congress &lpar;APC&rpar;<&sol;a> for the <a href&equals;"http&colon;&sol;&sol;Openlife&period;ng">2023 governorship election<&sol;a>&period;<&sol;strong><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Gawuna’s choice was made at a stakeholders’ meeting Governor Abdullahi Ganduje presided over&comma; <em>Daily Trust<&sol;em> reliably gathered&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><img class&equals;"alignnone size-medium wp-image-14430" src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;openlife&period;ng&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2022&sol;05&sol;Ganduje-Gawuna-300x184&period;webp" alt&equals;"" width&equals;"300" height&equals;"184" &sol;><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Umar Ganduje and his Deputy<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>The stakeholders were also said to have agreed that the former Commissioner for Local Government and Chieftaincy Affairs&comma; Murtala Sule Garo&comma; should be the running mate of Gawuna in the election&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>It was gathered that it took intervention of party leaders and elder statesmen to prevail on Garo to step down for Gawuna&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Garo&comma; who is believed to have the control of the party structure at the local government level&comma; was seen as the preferred candidate of the wife of the governor&comma; Hafsat Ganduje&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>The incumbent governor had served as the deputy of Senator Rabiu Kwankwaso during the two terms he governed Kano&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<h1><a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;openlife&period;ng&sol;asuu-ends-warning-strike&sol;">ASUU Ends Warning Strike<&sol;a><&sol;h1>&NewLine;<p>Kwankwaso had endorsed Ganduje to take over from him&comma; but the duo fell apart shortly after the 2015 elections&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>If Gawuna wins the 2023 election&comma; the tradition of deputy governor succeeding their principals would have been maintained in Kano’s recent political era&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;