Leader of the Kwankwasiya Movement and former Governor of Kano State, Rabiu Kwankwaso has dismissed claims by the minister of transport, Rotimi Amaechi that President Muhammadu Buhari will win Kano State I the 2019 presidential election.

Kwankwaso was one of the 15 senators who defected recently from the All Progressives Congress (APC) to the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP).

Amaechi, a former Governor of Rivers State and director general of the Buhari re-election campaign, has stated that nothing would prevent Buhari from winning the 2019 polls.

Speaking while inspecting the Itakpe-Warri rail line on Friday, Amaechi said “Do you honestly believe that the president will lose election in this country? Well nobody is God, but that is one of his comfort zones. The next person that left from Bauchi, if you bring president on a sick bed in Bauchi, he will win. He has never lost election in Bauchi.”

“One thing about me in the political history of Nigeria, nobody has been in doubt on where I stand, one quality I have and Nigerians believe is that I’m honest. I never hid my feelings”.

Nigerians will certainly reject a second looting, Nigeria cannot survive another looting, call me all the rich men in Nigeria, everybody depends on government. Sixty percent of Nigerian rich men depend on government. Only three years that they remove the breast milk everybody is complaining”.

But reacting to this, Kwankwaso, through his spokesperson, Binta Spikin, said that Buhari would lose in Kano even though he uses federal might, adding that his defection will not only affect the votes in Kano State but has brought down the APC.

“Even if the government puts whatever in place, there is no way President Buhari will win in Kano, there’s no way. I think his defection will greatly affect the votes in 2019. His defection will not only affect the chances of the APC in Kano, his defection has brought down APC. If you look across Nigeria today, not Kano alone, there’s nowhere in Nigeria that you don’t have the presence of Kwankwasiyya (supporters of Mr Kwankwaso)”.

“Kano is his home base and he is well grounded in Kano. Even without the government, he had a 60 percent of the voters, so what do you think will happen now that he has joined forces with people like Mallam Ibrahim Shekarau? “Even if the government puts whatever in place, there is no way President Buhari will win in Kano, there’s no way. “He stands a very good chance to win Buhari. We are covered