The National Chairman of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC), Abdullahi Umar Ganduje, has accused Governor Abba Yusuf of Kano State of using diversionary tactics to cover up for his failure to deliver in office.
Ganduje, in a statement issued by his Chief Press Secretary, Edwin Olofu, said the governor is shifting public glare from the fact that “there is really nothing on the ground” in the state to justify the sharp increase in statutory allocations to the state since the inception of the President Bola Ahmed Tinubu administration.
Ganduje was reacting to the decision of the Kano State Government to file criminal charges against him over alleged bribery of $413,000, and N1.38 billion.
He said that the latest attempt by the state to drag his name in the mud would fail, adding that it spoke volumes of the level of “crass ignorance” and disregard for the rule of law by the Governor Abba Yusuf-led administration.
In their desperate attempt to malign me and my family, they either forgot or probably cannot conduct themselves by the dictates of the law,” he affirmed.
“They failed to take judicial notice of the recent pronouncement of the Federal High Court in Kano which ruled that the so-called offence I am being accused of is a federal offence that can only be prosecuted by the Attorney General of the Federation and the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC).
