Stakeholders of the All Progressives Congress (APC) Legacy Group in Kano have, after an intense meeting that lasted up to 4am yesterday, nominated Murtala Sule Garo as the state’s new deputy governor that will succeed Aminu Abdussalam who refused to decamp alongside Governor Abba Kyari Yusuf to APC.

Earlier on, reports hints that the stakeholders presented a shortlist of three nominees to Yusuf for the position of deputy governor, who include Murtala Sule Garo, Rabiu Suleiman Bichi a former State SSG, and a serving House of Representatives member, Alhassan Rirum. The submission was disclosed in a statement issued yesterday by Magaji Umar Gwammaja, a prominent member of the APC Legacy Group.