No axe to grind with Gen Buhari — Shekarau vanguard
By ABDULLAHI YAKUBU

IT has been observed that, the presidential flag bearer of the All Nigeria Peoples Party (ANPP), Alhaji Muhammadu Buhari and the governor of Kano state, Malam Ibrahim Shekarau are twin brothers, who can never be separated, despite all the insinuations to fragment their relationship.
Making the observation, while answering quesion from some journalists in the state capital last week, the chairman of Shekarau United Political Vanguard Hon. Musa Inuwa Sale said, the two respectable party leaders have never been strange- bed- fellows.
He said, though there were several attempts to bring serious division within the ranks and files of the ANPP in the state, using the Buhari Organisation (TBO) intrigues have failed to work.
“We have learnt that, evil machinators within the ANPP and even outside the party, were bent on capitalizing on a recent so-called ant-i Malam government, credited to General Muhammadu Buhari to bring disunity in the ANPP, that will not deter serious- minded members of the party from pursuing the genuine cause“, he assured.
On the wild speculation going round that, the national body of the ANPP may likely withdraw Malam Ibrahim Shekarau from the contest and replace him with his deputy, Gala described such rumour as baseless and unfounded.
He said, he would like to assure all and sundry that, no Jupiter on earth would replace Malam Shekarau with anybody, since his election at the primaries was clearly done on popular choice.
On whether he feared the replica of what had befallen Alhaji Ali Amin Little, during 2003 ANPP primaries happening to governor Shekarau,
He said, there was no relationship between what is being speculated and the Ibrahim Ali Amin’s incident, adding that, during that period, Little was identified as someone with serious problems and given him the contest would mean creating a vaccum for the PDP to take over.
Gala explained that, that was why the national headquarters of the ANPP decided to give Malam Shekarau the chance, since he was the only person with clean records and no one had the legal ground to challenge him.
On the noises being made over the local government chairmen and their tenure, Gala said the legislative arm of government had done what it is supposed to do, by allowing the law to prevail.
He said the appointment of local government administrators to man the affairs of the existing local government areas in the state, was a clear indication that, there was no grudges in the entire arrangement.