The Majority Leader of the House of Representatives, Hon. Alhassan Doguwa, has said he remains in the All Progressives Congress and has no reason to leave the APC ahead of the 2023 general election.

The lawmaker said those alleging he was set to defect from the ruling party were peddling what he described as “catastrophic fake news”.

Doguwa, who represents Doguwa/Tudun Wada Federal Constituency of Kano State in the House of Reps, said this when he paid a solidarity visit to the APC presidential candidate, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, in Abuja on Sunday.

Assuring Tinubu of his support, the federal lawmaker said Kano State Governor, Abdullahi Ganduje, “is in safe hands”.

He said: “APC remains my party, my destiny. I’m not leaving the party for any other. I remain in the APC because victory is for the party.

“I also believe we have a presidential candidate in Asiwaju Tinubu who has the sagacity, capacity and experience to turn around the economy, the fortune of the country, the same way he did in Lagos. I believe that under Tinubu, Nigeria will do well in the comity of nations.

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“Kano is under the able leadership of Governor Ganduje who I call an engineer because the wonderful things he has done in the state and the way he has turned Kano to a model. He has improved on and created additional infrastructure. Ganduje is everything to us in Kano.

“With Governor Ganduje leading the charge, we will deliver the state to APC, to Asiwaju Tinubu. We have done this before in Kano State.

“During the cancelled 1993 election, we voted for the MKO Abiola/Babagana Kingibe of the then SDP against the candidature of our son, late Alhaji Bashir Tofa, of the defunct NRC. Tofa was not just a Kano man, he was an eminent statesman. Kano votes on the basis of ideology. History will repeat itself again Kano. Mark my words.”

On his part, Tinubu thanked Doguwa for the visit, promising to stand by him and the people of the state for their support.

He recalled that he had come a long way with the lawmaker from their days in the 1992 National Assembly (Tinubu in the Senate and Doguwa in the House of Reps), describing the House Majority Leader as his son and a dependable ally.

Doguwa visited Tinubu alongside the members of the Kano State House of Assembly and the two local government chairmen from his constituency, among others.

The Star