2019: ‘I’m Nigeria’s next president’– Kwankwaso declares in Plateau

The former Governor of Kano State, Dr Rabi'u Musa Kwankwaso, has
boasted that he would be the next president of Nigeria.

Kwankwaso is one of the 13 presidential aspirants jostling for the
sole ticket of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP.

The former governor, who is currently representing Kano Central at the
Senate, made the declaration on Thursday while speaking at the PDP
state secretariat when he visited Jos, the Plateau State capital to
lobby delegates ahead of party's presidential primary elections in
October.

Kwankwaso while addressing the Chairman, Plateau State chapter of
party, Damishi Sango said, "I know there is conference currently going
on in Abuja, and because your relative is coming to Jos, you then
delegated your Deputy to represent you.

"I know you wouldn't go anywhere because Rabi'u Musa Kwankwaso is
coming, you asked your Deputy to go because the conference there is
irrelevant. The most relevant one is the next president Kwankwaso is
coming to Jos," he said.

Kwankwaso, former Minister of Defense during the Olusegun Obasanjo's
regime added that he has what it takes to match President Muhammadu
Buhari's popularity.

"I am lucky I am from Kano, a state with the highest population
conducted during last census, and also I am from North West, a zone
with highest population in Nigeria, and you know politics is a game of
numbers and I have the numbers," he said.

Kwankwaso explained that Buhari has failed in providing education,
employment for the teaming youths and on infrastructure.

"I would provide free education for Nigerians. If you remember in
2001, I built Kano State University of Technology, Wudil, and in 2012
I built North West University. I sponsored about 1,162 Kano indigenes
to study different courses at private universities in Nigeria." He
said.

He said, "My government also sponsored about 2, 600 Kano indigenes to
study abroad in countries like USA, England, France, Egypt and Sudan,
so if elected president all states of Nigeria would enjoy free
education."

Kwankwaso also pledged if elected president in 2019 he would work
round the clock to end the farmers-herders clashes bedeviling the
country.

The former governor also said he was one of the commanders that made
Buhari the president in 2015, "And we the commanders are in PDP,
therefore Buhari wouldn't win 2019 presidential election."