A group, Kano Concerned Forum, has berated the Kano State government, which seeks to investigate the former Governor Abdullahi Ganduje administration in the state.
Addressing newsmen in Kano, yesterday, the secretary of the forum, Comrade Auwal Shu‘aib said,
“Elections are done and dusted. Now is the time to deliver to the Kano people good governance and the dividends of democracy. To bring back an old and expired line of investigating the past administration is tantamount to self-admission of failure.
“If the Gov Abba-led government had a clear roadmap for development, it wouldn‘t be wasting its precious time on frivolous issues of investigating the Ganduje administration and his family.
“Because, Kano people are overwhelmed with existential challenges, like high cost of living, hyperinflation and want.”
It said that it is almost a year since the government took over, but has not achieved a major milestone, and wondered why it is wasting time on what is not tenable.
“Kano people are more concerned about getting them out of the doldrums they are in. Federal government has massively supported the state government to ease the current hardship, we in Kano are waiting to see how the government will bring succour to us.
“Therefore, this needless, politically motivated committee is nothing but vendetta aimed at servicing the ego of some interests within the state,” he added.
Earlier, the forum’s co-convener, Ambassador Abdullahi Mohammed, lambasted the government on the perceived injustice and partiality in setting up the mandate and scope of the committee.
This committee is ill-conceived. Even if there‘s a need for it, which I doubt, why focus on Ganduje‘s administration alone?
They ought to have started the investigation beyond 2015. It should be from 1999 through to 2023.
This is in spite of an existing court order restraining Kano State government against harassment of Dr Ganduje and his family in whatever guise,“ he explained.
He said that it is the prerogative of a governor to lease government properties so long as the legal procedures are followed, adding that it has been the practice among all governors in the country.
Ganduje‘s children are Kano indigenes and have the right to buy and own government properties so long as all criteria are met,“ he said.
He concluded that „Dr Ganduje has done his best for Kano. And as Kano indigenes, we bear testimony to his massive infrastructural development, as well as consolidating Kano‘s position as centre of commerce in West Africa, through a robust commercialisation drive.“
Last week, the Kano State government set up two committees to investigate the administration of Ganduje.
