Governor Abba Yusuf has described his predecessor Abdullahi Ganduje’s administration as highly corrupt. The incumbent said Ganduje, now the National Chairman of the All progressives Congress, APC, presided over a massively corrupt administration.
Governor Yusuf said unlike his predecessor, his government has been able to turn the state around within few months of coming into power.
Ganduje was in office for eight years, but his party lost to the New Nigeria People’s Party, NNPP, last year in a highly contested election won by the incumbent.
The governor however said the tenure of Ganduje was a great loss for the state because nothing tangible was benefitted by the people other than the massive corruption that took place under his watch.
The state helmsman was reacting to the recent remark by the APC national chairman that the state has nothing to show for the increase in monetary allocation from the federal to the state.
“Nothing on the ground” to justify the sharp increase in statutory allocations to the state since the inception of the President Bola Ahmed Tinubu administration, Ganduje has said in a statement last week.
Responding, the governor stated that his administration has been in office for barely eight months, that what it has achieved within the period totally outweighed what his predecessor accomplished in eight years that he ran the affairs of the state.
According to Governor Yusuf, in a statement by his spokesman, Sanusi Bature Dawakin Tofa, his predecessor’s administration was riddled with massive corruption, stressing that his government would leave no stone unturned to ensure that the former’s administration was thoroughly probed.
The governor stated that anyone found to have soiled his hands with public funds during the Ganduje’s administration would not go unpunished.
The statement said, “Our eight months in office have remarkably outweighed Ganduje’s eight wasted years of political caricature and maladministration by all standards. We wish to reaffirm the present administration’s resolve and readiness to make anyone found guilty of corruption to face the full wrath of the law for their intentional wrongdoings.
“The administration of Governor Abba Kabir Yusuf emphasises that it would leave no stone unturned to pursue the dollar video scandal to a logical conclusion. He therefore requests the release of the forensic investigation conducted by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFFC) on ‘Gandollar saga’ in 2018, for public consumption.”
Recall that a Federal High Court in the state last week ruled that the state’s anti-corruption and public complaints commission lacks the power to investigate Ganduje over his dollar bribery scam.
On January 12 this year, the supreme court affirmed the election of Yusuf as Kano state governor. A five-member panel of the apex court had brought to end the legal tussle that arose from last year’s governorship election by declaring the NNPP candidate the winner of the keenly contested election.
