During an interview with the Daily Trust, Ambassador Aminu Bashir Wali, who is 83 years old and has served as the Permanent Representative of Nigeria in the United Nations (UN), the Ambassador of Nigeria to the People's Republic of China, and between the years 2014 and 2015, Minister of Foreign Affairs, discussed the crisis that has been occurring within the People's Democratic Party (PDP) as well as his close relationship with the late former Head of State, General Murtala Mohammed.
Following all of the conflict, Ambassador Wali was informed that he had surrendered his political power in Kano State to Alhaji Rabiu Musa Kwankwaso and his people. Furthermore, as he was replying to this, he stated that Rabiu Musa Kwankwaso is someone with whom he cannot continue to argue since he (Wali) is the one who is responsible for making 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."