Former Kano state governor, Malam Ibrahim Shekarau, was, on Tuesday, seen in public with Ahmadu Haruna Zago, the factional chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Kano State.
They were seen together at an empowerment programme facilitated by Shekarau, senator representing Kano Central.
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The programme is an “Empowerment Program for Training Certification, Kitting and support for Micro Trades on Hygiene knowledge and application in and around their environment in Kano central”.
The Environmental Health Officers Registration Council of Nigeria (EHORECON) and Shekarau facilitated the programme.
This has confirmed the reports that Zago was endorsed by Shekarau and his G7 to emerge as a factional chairman of the party.
Abdullahi Abbas with the support of the state governor, Abdullahi Umar Ganduje, emerged victorious in the congress conducted at the Sani Abacha Indoor Sports Hall.
The two-term former governor, who led a group of lawmakers now known as the G-7 to challenge Ganduje’s leadership of the party in the state, acknowledged Zago in his speech at the programme as “newly elected Chairman of APC in Kano” to the cheers of the crowd.
In what was considered by several people in the audience said was a snide directed at the Ganduje group of the APC in the state, Shekarau said “You know now, once they want to speak, they say youth are wayward, they have gone astray not forgetting that for us to have wayward youth we first have wayward elders.
“We pray that Almighty Allah to give us youth that are not wayward, those with integrity and high moral value that will benefit the society.
“May God forgive and transform these elders and improve their moral value.”
