NNPP demands investigation of Gov. Ganduje’s son, Abba, over use of state resources for campaign

By solacebase.com On Oct 20, 2022

By Baba Aminu

The New Nigeria Peoples Party (NNPP) has demanded for an immediate investigation into an alleged diversion of state resources by Abba Ganduje, a son of the Kano state governor Abdullahi Umar Ganduje who is also the All Progressives Congress (APC) candidate for House of Representatives, Dawakin Tofa, Rimingado and Tofa federal constituency.

This was contained in a statement issued by NNPP Chairman, Kano State, Hon. Umar Haruna Doguwa, on Thursday.

SOLACEBASE reports that Doguwa said in the statement that it had discovered that the state government had diverted over thirty (30) vehicles from the Kano Internal Revenue Service (KIRS), to the campaign activities of the APC candidate.

According to the statement, the vehicles emblazoned with Abba Ganduje’s image are set to be distributed to the APC ward chairmen of Rimingado, Tofa, and Dawakin Tofa Federal constituency to checkmate the incumbent Tijjani Abdulkadir Jobe who distributed about twenty cars to his party members recently.

‘’The statement further revealed that the said vehicles have been assembled at the premises of the temporary campus of the Northwest University, Kano awaiting the onwards distribution to supporters of Ganduje’s son Abba, the statement alleged.

‘’The opposition party also faulted the deposition of the vehicles at a government institution (Yusuf Maitama Sule University’s city campus) as a violation of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) guidelines for political campaigns.’’

“We therefore request for the anti-graft agencies such as EFFC, ICPC and INEC to investigate both mismanagement of state resources, conflict of interest and violation of election guidelines.”

“Governor Ganduje is known for running a government of nepotism with crass impunity by allowing too much involvement of his family into the affairs of the state administration, as a leading opposition part, we will no longer keep mute on such excessive recklessness.” Doguwa reassured

The party also urged voters in the affected constituency and across the state to reject politics of nepotism, corruption and misplaced priorities.

SOLACEBASE‘s efforts to get a reaction to the allegations from Abba Ganduje proved abortive as his telephone line was not going through and a text message sent to him was not replied.