The Governor of Kano State, Abdullahi Ganduje says President Muhammed Buhari’s backing of former Edo State Governor, Comrade Adams Oshiomhole to become the next National Chairman of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) was democratic.

He stated this on Wednesday shortly after the meeting of some APC governors with the members of the National Working Committee (NWC) of the party while reacting to a statement from the opposition Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) that Buhari was trying to impose Oshiomhole on the party.

He told newsmen: “Everybody is free to contest, just as everybody is free to hold an opinion on who should lead the party. I don’t think that there is any case of imposition because it is not a guideline and not part of the constitution.

“Just like any other person, Mr. President has the right to air his opinion, but that does not mean he should stop any person who will like to contest from contesting. Mr. President’s opinion is not constitutional and it is not a non-constitutional opinion as well.

“He just voiced out his thought which will serve as a guideline to some. The issue of being undemocratic does not even arise. There is what we call guided democracy and we regard what Mr. President said as such.

“If that is what will make the party stable and avoid the fallout after the election like we saw in the PDP, it will be better for us.”

On the outcome of the meeting, Ganduje disclosed that besides the issue of the timetable for the party’s convention and congresses, they also resolved that the zoning of key party officials would be maintained with the party chairman coming from the South-South while the secretary would emerge from the North-East.