Senator Rabiu Knwankwaso, former Governor of Kano state said that the crisis in the National assembly was caused by the leadership of the All Progressives Congress, APC because they underestimated the strength of the G-5 Governors.

According to PUNCH, Kwankwaso made the comment in an interview with reporters in Abuja on Monday. He said, "The leaders of APC may have underrated the members of the G-5 governors and their potential to do good or to do bad depending on the circumstances".

"On the issue of what went wrong with our party with regard to the crisis during the election of the National Assembly leadership, I think so many things went wrong prominent of which has to do with time. The election was something that has relationship with time and we know very well that we had so many weeks to prepare ourselves for the elections in the legislative chambers.

"I wished time was really taken to ensure that we had a successful election. Although this is not the time to begin to trade blames, many of us had drawn the attention of our leaders to do the right thing at the right time. Sometimes, you might decide to do the right thing at the wrong time that will certainly back- fire".

Kwankwaso was one of G-5 Governors who defected from the then ruling Peoples Democratic Party to the APC. The others were Murtala Nyako (Adamawa), Rotimi Amaechi (Rivers), Alhaji Magatakarda Wamakko (Sokoto) and Kwara State Governor Abdulfatai Ahmed.