L-R: Former Kano State Governor, Rabiu Kwankwaso, the incumbent, Abba Yusuf, and the immediate past Governor, Abdulahi Ganduje
Former Governor of Kano State, Abubakar Ganduje, on Friday, in Abuja, lamented the demolition of several buildings in Kano State by the Abba Yusuf-led administration, accusing his predecessor, Rabiu Kwankwaso, of masterminding the development.
He said he would have slapped Kwankwaso if he had met him in Aso Villa. Ganduje addressed State House Correspondents shortly after a closed-door meeting with President Bola Tinubu at the Aso Rock Villa on Friday evening. The distraught former governor said the demolitions were executed without due process and, therefore, breached the law.
Although Rabiu Kwankwaso ran for and lost the presidential election on the platform of the New Nigeria Peoples Party, the party’s candidate, Abba Yusuf, won the Kano State Governorship election. The media reports that the simmering battle between the All Progressives Congress whose candidate lost the governorship election and the NNPP took an ugly turn recently.
In what the APC had termed a political backlash, the new state chief executive, in his inauguration speech on May 29, gave a marching order to security agencies in Kano to immediately repossess all public properties believed to have been sold by the Ganduje administration.
