Nigeria, May 8 -- This is not the best of time for the embattled APC chairman, Dr Abdullahi Umar Ganduje. It is also not the right time to be in opposition in a place like Kano State. We know politics is an endless cut-throat battle, but the intrigues and volatility of Kano politics is something else. However, ever since the two former governors of the state, Rabiu Kwankwaso and Ganduje parted way and started their political roforofo, Kano has never been the same. Everything around and about them are politicised and twisted to fit certain narratives. Ganduje was recently suspended from his ward, and it was affirmed by a Kano high court.

When the New Nigeria People's Party's (NNPP) Abba Yusuf came in newly, he started by demolishing Gandu...