Senator Rabiu Kwankwaso, Presidential Candidate of the New Nigerian Peoples Party (NNPP), said President Bola Ahmed Tinubu was in shock in reaction to report of ex-governor Umar Ganduje’s sale of University’s property during his time as governor.
Kwankwaso and Ganduje are not on good terms occasioned by political differences arising from struggle for political control of Kano.
The NNPP’s Presidential candidate’s protégé, Gov. Abba Kabir Yusuf has been on a mission to recover some government properties, Ganduje oversaw the sale purportedly to himself, family members and cronies.
In seeking the property recovery, Yusuf-led administration has embarked on a demolition exercise to which Ganduje accused Kwankwaso of being the brain behind.
The latter, however, justified Gov Yusuf’s action in an interview he granted State House correspondents after meeting with President Bola Tinubu at the Villa.
He accused the ex-governor of appropriating government property to himself, family members and cronies, saying that President Tinubu was in shock on hearing of appropriation of plots of land belonging to University.
The former minister also named, Hajj Camp, Race Course and Eid Ground among plots of land in question.
His remark, “The President was shocked. Are you not shocked that somebody will sell University? Are you not shocked that he demolished the only university? Daula Hotel, for those of you who are in Kano, you know the old Daula, demolished to zero and that is a faculty under the university of science and technology. He demolished that one. Are you not shocked?
“The President was shocked. He didn’t know. He even mentioned that he talked to somebody to go and find out for him. But when I told him, I said you are a Muslim, very soon you are going for Sallah. How can you go under that circumstance and pray in that place? And even the Triumph place he is talking about, you are journalists. You should be angry because that’s your constituency, he demolished completely and put shops everywhere.
“You see the governor is doing what we campaigned with. I wanted to be president, I campaigned also. And I went to Kano and told them that these places, schools, in fact most of our schools in Kano were being encroached. And it is our policy to make sure that they encroached are returned to them. We will not allow anybody either local government chairman, or Governor to go sell.”
