{"id":16276,"date":"2019-03-20T16:00:39","date_gmt":"2019-03-20T16:00:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/?p=16276"},"modified":"2019-03-20T16:00:39","modified_gmt":"2019-03-20T16:00:39","slug":"im-not-involved-in-kano-election-says-tinubu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/?p=16276","title":{"rendered":"I’m not involved in Kano election, says Tinubu"},"content":{"rendered":"

All Progressives Congress National Leader, Sen.\u00a0 Bola Tinubu, on Wednesday refuted rumours that he was in Kano and meddling in the state\u2019s rescheduled elections.
\nTinubu in a statement said he had not been in Kano at any point during the conduct of the elections.
\nA copy of the statement was made available to newsmen in Lagos by Tinubu\u2019s Media Adviser, Mr Tunde Rahman.
\nHe said that the picture of himself and Gov. Abdullahi\u00a0 Ganduje of Kano that was circulating in the media was\u00a0 taken in 2018 when the governor visited Lagos.
\nAccording to him, such rumours are harmful to the democracy Nigeria seeks to enshrine and goes against the progressive tradition that describes Kano\u2019s politics.
\n\u201cThese desperate politicians stir resentment of others as a way to get the support of the people.
\n\u201cThey use lies and deception as their crutch, casting me as some type of one-man political invasion intending to unduly influence the governorship election.
\n\u201cFor the record, I\u2019m\u00a0 not in Kano and has not been in Kano at any point during the conduct of these elections.
\n\u201cThe picture that these liars are circulating\u00a0 is one that was taken last year when the governor visited Lagos, \u201che said.
\nTinubu said that Kano had historically stood as a bastion of progressive politics.
\nAccording to him, Its brand of politics helped inspire the establishment of the APC.
\n\u201cRegarding the people of Kano, I have\u00a0 nothing but the utmost respect and admiration.
\n\u201cKano has an enlightened electorate that will vote as they believe. I hope that they will disregard the lies and rumors about me and remain faithful to their progressive tradition.
\n\u201cIf the people do so, then they would have voted in their best interests and that is for the APC, the party of President Muhammadu Buhari, \u201che said.
\nTinubu said that he had been at the forefront of the struggle for electoral reforms, justice and equality over the years and\u00a0would never do anything to desecrate\u00a0 those fine ideals.
\n\u201cI believe in a free and fair electoral process, a project to which I have devoted the majority of my adult life to achieve.
\n\u201cLet this election be decided on the relative merits of the competing candidates.
\n\u201cI\u2019m\u00a0 a committed democrat and advocate of free and fair electoral processes. I will neither support nor work to promote anything that will undermine or weaken the electoral system, \u201d Tinubu said.
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All Progressives Congress National Leader, Sen.\u00a0 Bola Tinubu, on Wednesday refuted rumours that he was in Kano and meddling in the state\u2019s rescheduled elections. Tinubu in a statement said he had not been in Kano at any point during the conduct of the elections. A copy of the statement was made available to newsmen in […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":15551,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16276","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16276","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=16276"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16276\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16276"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16276"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16276"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}