by Dolapo Adelana
Kano governor, Abdullahi Ganduje, has given reasons why the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) is underfunded.
Ganduje, who spoke in an interview with Vanguard said the party’s change mantra was responsible for the underfunding.
The Kano governor said the political party will no longer allow “cheap money” under the administration of President Muhammadu Buhari.
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“It is part of the change mantra. People were used to getting cheap money; some struggled to be party officials in order to make money but President Buhari is not like that. If the party has programmes on the ground, the governors have no problem to see how the party can be funded,” Ganduje said.
“But the issue of taking government money to fund the party does not arise now, it is the challenge of all political parties; we have to look inwards. And here in Kano we have devised a system of funding the party by tasking political office holders to pay some fraction of their salaries and allowances to fund the party.
“We will not allow the party to crumble but, at the same time, we will not allow the party to flourish to the extent that it will now be business as usual and corruption becomes attractive. We will bail out when we have seen concrete and realistic things that would be executed.
“In fact, a political party as an institution is supposed to be creating avenues to fund itself but because we are used to bringing money from government to nourish political parties, that is why our perception is still like that. But a political party has to think of ways to invest, to do something that would make it sustainable.”
Dolapo is a writer and journalist who works with YNaija. He has interests in Christianity, politics and sports.
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