Kano State Governor Rabiu Kwankwaso has described the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) as “haven for criminals.”
The governor said that it was as a result of the “misdirection, lack of focus” that made him leave the PDP for the APC.
Kwankwaso said this during a live programme of a television station in Benin, Edo State, after he visited the 250 students of Kano State origin at the Igbinedion University, where he also felicitated with Chief Gabriel Igbinedion on his 80th birthday celebration.
He also slammed President Goodluck Jonathan as lacking the political will to tackle the Boko Haram insurgency in the country.
According to him, rather than fight the insecurity in the country “Mr President has perfected plans to witch-hunt All Progressives Congress (APC) governors due to his presidential ambition.”
He said over four million people had been displaced as a result of the insurgency in North-East.
The governor also alleged that the “the President is busy beaming searchlight on opposition governors and APC leaders to accuse them of corruption just because he wants to become President for a second term while our children are dying in the North as insecurity and poverty have become the order of the day.
“That is the plot of the PDP but if they try to intimidate the opposition, they will not like what they will get.
“The issue of insecurity in this country and many other countries requires everybody from all the political parties, people from all walks of life to work together to ensure that extremists, insurgents and criminals are defeated in Nigeria and elsewhere,” Kwankwaso said.
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