A video showing the family and associates of Abdullahi Ganduje, National Chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC), mocking Maryam Shetty who was dropped last Friday, in a new appointment made by President Bola Tinubu, has emerged in public.
Daily Trust, reports that Ganduje, who seemed to be having the last laugh over Rabiu Kwankwaso, his former boss in office and currently his main political opponent in Kano, himself joined in the fun, urging his opponents to continue their disparaging comments against his wife over the drama that trailed the replacement of one of the ministerial-nominees from Kano.
Shetty was dropped and replaced with Mariya Mahmoud Bunkure, said to be a friend to Amina, daughter of the former Governor, believed to have had a hand in the new turn of events, having preferred the new nominee over the former, who they believed to have little value.
The report, stated how in a viral video that emerged barely 24 hours after the dramatic turn of event, Ganduje could be seen with his wife, Hafsat, and the new ministerial nominee, and other women laughing at the mention of the name of Shetty, who had said that she accepted her fate as the will of Allah and insisted that better things were ahead.
The report, which saw the gathering as a seeming thank-you visit to the Gandujes, described how a woman whose face was not captured could be heard saying in Hausa language that “the head has now fit the cap. When we heard that they brought one Maryam, Maryam who?”, to which another voice replied “Shetty!”
At this point, Bunkure, Hafsat Ganduje (popularly referred to as Gwaggo) and Ganduje, who were seen laughing, saying, mockingly: “I said who is Shetty? We were confused, I said from where is she from? They said Kano,” while the former governor in his own contribution, saying “I want them to call out Gwaggo again. They have opened a new chapter of ignorance. We are thankful this one (referring to Bunkure) has joined the caucus.”
Bunkure, a former commissioner for Higher Education during Ganduje’s second term, is said to be a close associate to the Ganduje family through Amina, who was believed to have influenced her nomination as commissioner, while Shetty and Bunkure were reported to be classmates at Kano Foundation and later the Bayero University.
Apart from sharing courses in the faculty of Medical Sciences and then shared some courses, the duo reportedly also shared group of friends while at the Junior Secondary school and at the University, having been in the same faculty, where Shetty read Physiotherapy while Bunkure read Medicine and Surgery.