April 8, (THEWILL) – In continuation of the public spat between the Kano State Government and the former Governor of the state, Dr Abdullahi Ganduje, Governor Abba Yusuf has urged the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), to release the result of its probe into the alleged dollar bribery video involving Ganduje
Yusuf, in a statement on Sunday, by his spokesperson, Sanusi Dawakin Tofa, said Ganduje should prepare to face his trial instead of talking about non-existent failure in the current administration.
“For whatever option, the Kano State Government would advise the acting National Chairman of APC to show cause why his name, that of his family, and the entire people of Kano should permanently be erased from the global embarrassment that the dollar video has generated.
“The administration of Governor Abba Kabir Yusuf emphasised that it would leave no stone unturned to pursue the dollar video scandal to a logical conclusion”, Yusuf said.
He, however, requested the release of the forensic investigation conducted by the Economic and Financial Crime Commission on ‘Gandollar saga’ in 2018, for public consumption.
There has been renewed hostilities between Yusuf and Ganduje after Yusuf last week, inaugurated two panels to probe Ganduje’s eight-year administration.
Yusuf’s government has also filed criminal charges against Ganduje, his wife, Hafsat, son, Umar and five others.
In reaction to the development, Ganduje said his predecessor was chasing shadows, saying the move against him was a diversionary tactic to cover “weak governance” in Kano.
But in the Sunday statement, Yusuf insisted that “Ganduje presided over two unproductive tenures characterised by siphoning public resources, inability to cater for the needs of Kano’s population, nepotism and bloodshed that left many families in the mood of melancholy.
“Our eight months in office have remarkably outweighed Ganduje’s eight wasted years of political caricature and maladministration by all standards”, he said.
The Governor advised Ganduje to rather buckle up in defence of his “battered image at the court, instead of further exposing his impunity on the media space.”
“No amount of media campaign would hinder the process of bringing Ganduje to book on the glaring cases of corruption filed against him” he said.
Abdullahi Yusuf is a seasoned journalist, communicator and was previously the Deputy Editor-In-Chief and Zonal Manager, News Agency of Nigeria, NAN, Jos, where he retired on December 15, 2021
