Minister of State for Housing and Urban Development, Yusuf Ata, has mocked a former governor of Kano State, Rabiu Kwankwaso, stating that red caps (Kwankwaso supporters) have disappeared in Kano.
In Kano State, the Kwankwasiyya movement (Kwankwaso) supporters are identified by their red caps.
However, Ata who spoke on Tuesday at the All Progressives Congress (APC), national secretariat in Abuja, when he visited the party’s National Chairman, Dr. Abdullahi Ganduje, said the red caps have disappeared.
He said, “Anybody who visits Kano State even today will see that there are a lot of changes.
“It is hardly you will find red caps in Kano. Before now, if you visit the mosque you will see many red caps, but today you can visit a mosque and if 5000 people come for prayers, you cannot see 20 red caps in Kano.
“So we are assuring the President that we are not asking for anything less.”
He added that, “We are strongly behind our national chairman. We have been discussing with him. This is the opinion of all the Kano State APC, even to the grassroots.
“Unless the National Chairman, who is the leader of the party in Kano takes a decision to accept him, Kwankwaso stands rejected.”
Asked why he won’t be happy if Kwankwaso joins APC, the minister said: “Personally, I won’t be happy. Unless it is a decision from our father (Ganduje) to accommodate him. I was in the House of Assembly in 1999 when Kwankwaso was the governor. So I know Kwankwaso very well.
“He is no more attractive in Kano. We have no deal unless the national chairman, as a leader, said we should accommodate him. No problem.”