Ambassador Aminu Bashir Wali (83 years of age), who served as Permanent Representative of Nigeria in the United Nations (UN), the Nigeria’s Ambassador to the People’s Republic of China, and between the year 2014 and 2015, Minister of Foreign Affairs, during an interview with Daily Trust, talked about the crisis in the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and his close relationship with the late former Head of State, General Murtala Mohammed.
Ambassador Wali was told that he had given up Kano State politics to the hands of Alhaji Rabiu Musa Kwankwaso and his people, after all the tussle. And while he was responding to this, he said that Rabiu Musa Kwankwaso, is someone he cannot continue to tussle with because he (Wali) made him what he is today.
He said, "After all, basically in the PDP, I brought him in. God knows that I made him as governor because if I had said no, he couldn’t have gotten that position."
Wali said that he didn’t see anything in kwankwaso. And that the first person that brought Kwankwaso to him was Senator Hamisu Musa, who said he (Kwankwaso) was a very nice boy.
Further talking, he said, "So I said I had no problem. But Rimi wanted me to run for the governorship position.
He went all the way to my elder brothers in the city to force me to come and run for the position. But, I said it was time for young people."