The outgoing Kano State governor, Abdullahi Umar Ganduje has been accused of siphoning N100 billion local governments’ funds.
Barrister Muhuyi Magaji Rimin Gado, a member of the Kano State‘s New Nigeria People’s Party (NNPP) Asset Recovery Transition Committee, raised the issue during a town hall meeting in Kano.
This is coming at a time when the incoming administration and the outgoing government are at loggerheads regarding the transition.
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Gado noted that documents recovered showed how the amount was siphoned from the Kano Local Government’s Treasury to personal accounts. However, the document are yet to be made available to the public.
“Official documents recovered clearly shows how N100 Billion was siphoned from the Kano Local Government’s Treasury to personal accounts, this is away from other similar diversions we have seen in the quest of our investigation,” he said.
Gado’s allegation came after the Chairman of NNPP Kano Gubernatorial Transition Committee, AB Baffa, urged that relevant information regarding Ganduje’s stewardship be revealed.
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“The NNPP Gubernatorial Transition Committee, GTC was set up by His Excellency Engr. Abba Kabir Yusuf, the Governor-elect of Kano State is inviting concerned members of the public that have any relevant information which would help the incoming administration to have more insight into what happened in the last Eight Years (2015 – 2023) to submit such information, in writing, to the Secretariat of the GTC at the Presidential Wing of Tahir Guest Palace, No.4 Ibrahim Road, Kano,” the committee’s statement partly read.
WikkiTimes had reported that NNPP’s Abba Kabir Yusuf, otherwise known as Abba Gida-Gida was declared winner of the March 18 governorship election in Kano State.
Yusuf polled 1,019,602 votes while his closet challenger of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) Nasir Yusuf Gawuna who was Ganduje’s anointed candidate finished runner-up with 890,705 votes.
