The New Nigerian Peoples Party (NNPP) has demanded for an immediate investigation into the alleged diversion of state resources by Abba Ganduje, the son of the Kano state governor Abdullahi Umar Ganduje who is also the All Progressives Congress (APC) candidate for House of Representatives representing Dawakin Tofa, Rimingado and Tofa federal constituency.
The NNPP chairman in Kano, Hon. Umar Haruna Doguwa said in a statement on Thursday that it had discovered that the Kano state government had diverted over thirty (30) vehicles from the Kano Internal Revenue Service (KIRS), to the campaign activities of the APC candidate.
The vehicles emblazoned with Abba Ganduje’s image are set to be distributed to the APC ward chairmen of Rimingado, Tofa, and Dawakin Tofa Federal Constituency to checkmate the incumbent Tijjani AbdulkadirJobe who distributed about twenty cars to his party members recently.
The statement further revealed that the said vehicles have been assembled at the premises of the temporary campus of the Northwest University, Kano awaiting the onwards distribution to supporters of Ganduje’s son Abba.
The opposition party also faulted the deposition of the vehicles at a government institution (Yusuf Maitama Sule University’s city campus) as a violation of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) guidelines for political campaigns.
“We therefore request for the anti-graft agencies such as EFFC, ICPC and INEC to investigate both mismanagement of state resources, conflict of interest and violation of election guidelines.”
“Governor Ganduje is known for running a government of nepotism with crass impunity by allowing too much involvement of his family into the affairs of the state administration, as a leading opposition part, we will no longer keep mute on such excessive recklessness.” Doguwa reassured
The party also urged voters in the affected constituency and across the state to reject politics of nepotism, corruption and misplaced priorities.
