By Rabiu Musa
HOTPEN – Governor Abdullahi Umar Ganduje has reportedly ended months of speculations by the anointment of his deputy, Dr. Nasiru Yusuf Gawuna as the preferred candidate to succeed him as Governor in the forthcoming 2023 election.
HOTPEN reliably gathered that Dr. Nasiru Yusuf Gawuna’s anointment was made at a well attended stakeholders’ meeting on Saturday’s night at Government House chaired by Governor Abdullahi Ganduje.
The stakeholders were also said to have agreed that the former Commissioner for Local Government and Chieftaincy Affairs, Murtala Sule Garo, should be the running mate for Gawuna in the election.
It was gathered that it took intervention of elders of the party and elder statesmen in the state to prevail on Garo to step down for Gawuna.
Garo, who is believed to have the control of the party structure at the local government level, was seen as the preferred candidate of the wife of the governor, Hafsat Ganduje.