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Rufai Hanga, a former senator and prominent member of the All Progressives Congress (APC), has dismissed the allegation of Rabiu Kwankwaso, former governor of Kano state, that former Vice-President Atiku Abubakar and Abdullahi Ganduje were plotting to float a new party.

Kwankwaso made the allegation in a statement issued on his behalf by Suleiman Bichi, former secretary to the government of Kano.

But Hanga described the allegation as the “figment of the imagination of its purveyors”.

He accused Kwankwaso and his supporters of spreading division, distrust, disaffection and disunity among members of the “APC political family”.

Hanga spoke at a programme in Kano during the weekend.

“Atiku Abubakar and Governor Ganduje are in politics, they are not at war with anybody because as he (Kwankwaso) should know better there is indeed life beyond politics,” he said.

“Kwankwaso and his supporters should stop dragging the name of the Turakin Adamawa into their dirty politics of lies, mischief, gossip and rumour mongering.

“Lies have short legs, they do not run very far.”

Hanga said at no time did the former vice-president meet Ganduje to discuss defection from APC or the formation of a new party, adding that “it is uncharitable to attribute to people motives they knew nothing about.”

“Atiku never discussed with anyone and least of all Governor Ganduje the purported decision to leave APC and form another party,” he said.