KANO State Governor, Alhaji Abba Kabir Yusuf, has tasked the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFC) to hasten the release of its forensic reports on alleged dollar video clip involving a immediate past governor of the state and National Chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Dr. Umar Abdullahi Ganduje.
Yusuf said the release of the report would finally silence Ganduje, even as he described his predecessor’s eight-year tenure as represented failure and maladministration.
The governor, in a statement by his spokesperson, Sanusi Bature Dawakin Tofa, on Sunday, April 7, alleged that Ganduje shamelessly spoke about non-existent failure in the present administration instead of facing the nemesis of corruption and political violence hanging around his neck.
“Our eight months in office has remarkably outweighed Ganduje’s eight wasted years of political caricature and maladministration by all standards,” Yusuf stated, advising the former governor to rather buckle up in defence of his already battered image at the court, instead of further exposing his impunity on the media space.
He alleged that Ganduje’s penchant for corruption had brought shame and disgrace to the good people of Kano, insisting that no amount of media campaign would hinder the process of bringing him to book on the glaring cases of corruption filed against him.
The statement further regretted that Ganduje could yet muster the courage to defend himself in the media, despite the embarrassing video clip where he was caught, red-handed, stocking his large agbada pockets with dollars.
“We wish to reaffirm the present administration’s resolve and readiness to make anyone found guilty of corruption to face the full wrath of the law for their intentional wrongdoings,” the statement added.
The Kano State Government emphasised that it would leave no stone unturned to pursue the dollar video scandal to a logical conclusion and requested the release of the forensic investigation by the EFCC on the “Gandollar saga” in 2018, for public consumption.
