Ganduje Can’t Escape Probe, He Brought Shame To Kano People – Gov Yusuf
BY VICTOR BUORO – Governor Abba Kabir Yusuf of Kano State says there is no chance for the immediate past governor, Abdullahi Umar Ganduje, to escape being probed for bringing shame to Kano State during his uneventful and failed eight-year administration in the State.
Speaking through Sanusi Bature Dawakin Tofa, his spokesperson, Governor Yusuf said it is unfortunate that Ganduje has been shamelessly talking about non-existent failure in the New Nigeria Peoples Party (NNPP) government instead of facing the nemesis of corruption and political violence hanging around his neck.
He said Ganduje’s eight-year tenure represented failure and maladministration, following massive records of corruption, diversion of public funds, and fraudulent sales of government properties that characterized it.
The governor insisted that Ganduje presided over two unproductive tenures characterised by siphoning public resources, inability to meet the needs of Kano’s population, nepotism, and bloodshed that left many families in a melancholic mood.
According to Governor Yusuf; “Our eight months in office has remarkably outweighed Ganduje’s eight wasted years of political caricature and maladministration by all standards”, even as he counseled Ganduje to rather buckle up in defence of his “battered image” at the court, instead of further exposing his impunity on the media space.
The Governor, who said Ganduje’s “penchant for corruption has brought shame and disgrace to the good people of Kano”, insisted that no amount of media campaign would hinder the process of bringing him (Ganduje) to book on the glaring cases of corruption filed against him.
While reaffirming the “present administration’s resolve and readiness to make Ganduje and his co-travelers face the full wrath of the law for their intentional wrongdoings”, Governor Yusuf, however, said the NNPP’s administration is multifacetedly inclined, prioritizing focus and attention on socio-economic and physical infrastructure developments for the overall well-being of Kano and its good people.
He said those assuming that efforts at pursuing the corruption charges against Ganduje and members of his immediate family are an attempt to cover up, have sadly missed the point and do not wish Kano State well, adding that such a category of people are either under false illusion or being economical with the truth.
Governor Yusuf, who also trashed allegations of poor governance in Kano despite the increase in federal allocation, said the State government is still “struggling to recover from a state of bankruptcy Ganduje plunged the state in the last eight years”, stressing that Ganduje-led administration’s association with massive corruption, nepotism, and intimidation of innocent citizens of Kano state, informed the decision to establish the two Judicial Commissions of Inquiry mandated to put things right.
The Kano Governor was reacting to comments by his predecessor, Alhaji Ganduje, who is the current National Chairman of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC), alleging that the NNPP-led administration was struggling hard to shift public glare from the fact that there is nothing on the ground in the state to justify the sharp increase in statutory allocations to the state since the inception of the President Bola Ahmed Tinubu administration.
Ganduje’s remarks, which were contained in a statement issued by his Chief Press Secretary, Edwin Olofu, stated thus; “Rather than join issues with my traducers in Kano over the trumped-up charges leveled against me, I would implore them to redirect their energies towards easing the plights of our people in Kano.”
The statement further quoted the immediate past governor as saying; “They still have the opportunity to revert to my blueprint for the sustainable growth and development of Kano State. It is not yet late in the day for them to emulate my developmental strides. They can still salvage the situation as my tenure was devoid of any wrongdoings”.
