The Governor of Kano State, Rabiu Musa Kwankwaso, who is among the presidential aspirants on the platform of the All Progressives Congress (APC) has justified the decision of the party to throw away its customary consensus arrangement in preference to primary elections.

Speaking with newsmen in Abuja yesterday, shortly after being honoured with an award by the Leadership Newspaper for his boldness in leading the revolt against his former party, the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Kwakwanso said the opposition party felt that subjecting aspirants to primaries would create better chances for it to emerge victorious at next year’s elections.

Hear him, “consensus is part of the belief of the party, but the fact of the matter is we have seen in the PDP, from 1999 to 2011 every election year there was primary election and primary election in my opinion strengthens the party. Therefore, probably that is why the PDP has been winning elections.”

Kwankwaso expressed his confidence that his party would come out with a candidate that would be generally accepted by the party and by extension, Nigerians.