2022: Ganduje to drag Sahara Reporters to court over EFCC report

Kano state government has condemned in strongest terms insinuation by an online publication, Sahara Reporters that Governor Abdullahi Umar Ganduje is one of the three governors fingered by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), as having stashed away funds in their houses.

A statement by the commissioner for information, Malam Muhammad Garba, on Sunday indicated that while the anti-graft agency did not mention the identity of the governors, Sahara Reporters went ahead to make such false reference.

SOLACEBASE reports that the issue became a subject of discussion in Kano since the publication on Friday with a well known  radio commentator in the state urging Abdulahi Ganduje to prove that Sahara Reporters mentioned his name wrongly or mischievously.

According to the statement, the report which lacked texture for an investigative story was either the imagination of the publishers or a deliberate attempt to tarnish the image of the governor.

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‘’Malam Garba pointed out that Governor Ganduje has not acquired the billions of naira stashed away funds involved that could be used to engage in the dreary process of table payment of workers’ salary in this era of e-banking services,’’ the statement said.

‘’The commissioner added that Kano has been one of the few states in the federation that consistently pays its workers’ salary, even as at the time of the release of the false report by Sahara Reporters, posting of the October salary had commenced.’’

‘’He therefore called for the retraction of the story and an unreserved apology from the publishers, failure of which the state government would not hesitate to take legal action.’’