The opposition All progressives Congress (APC) in Kano state has chided Governor Abba Kabir Yusuf for probing the administration of former governor Abdullahi Ganduje over alleged corruption.
Daily News 24 reports that the APC in a statement by its Chairman, Abdullahi Abbas described the probe as a witch-hunt and called on the governor to also investigate the tenure of his political godfather, Rabiu Kwankwaso, if he is sincere.
Recalled that Gov. Yusuf has set up two judicial commissions of enquiry to probe Mr Ganduje’s sale of public properties and two investigate alleged political violence and cases of missing persons from 2015 to 2023.
But Mr Abbas alleged that the judicial commission’s work would not do justice if their terms of reference do not extend to Mr Kwankwaso’s tenure, between 1999 to 2003 and from 2011 to 2015.
He also claimed that sharing of the state assets happened right under the nose of Abba Kabir Yusuf when he was the Commissioner for Works, Housing and Transportation.
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The APC further observed that the composition of the commission’s membership reveals that it is made up of members of the NNPP and other partisan politicians.
“This singular act clearly shows that the commission has been assigned with a duty to witch-hunt and politically victimize the subjects of investigation in the unwarranted assignment,” the statement added.
Abbas stated that the government should be upright in its dealings by not selfishly restricting its investigation to between 2015 and 2023.
“From 2011-2015, the controversial five-kilometre road projects in the 44 local governments were awarded and only for the funds to be misappropriated without the project being executed.
“During the same period under review, over N3 billions naira was also earmarked for a particular project but misappropriated by Kwankwaso during his Presidential Campaign in Lagos when N70 million was released by each local government,” he explained.
