A political movement in Kano State, Arewa Renaissance Front (ARF) has raised an alarm over several attempts being made by Governor Abba Yusuf’s New Nigeria People’s Party (NNPP) led administration in Kano State to frame up the immediate past Governor of the State and All Progressives Congress (APC) National Chairman, Dr. Abdullahi Umar Ganduje on unsubstantiated allegations of sleaze to cover up for the Governor’s inability to meet up with the expectations of the people.
The group, in a statement released by its Secretary-General, Aminu Gawama, accused Governor Abba Yusuf and his godfather, Rabiu Musa Kwankwaso, of witch-hunting Ganduje through propaganda and state-owned institutions to divert the attention of the people of the state from their paralysing inefficiency and cluelessness.
“We at the Arewa Renaissance Front (ARF) are aware of the recent politically-motivated attacks on the person of the National Chairman of the All Progressives Congress, Dr Umar Abdullahi Ganduje.
“We note with concern that the attacks are overtly and covertly sponsored by the Kano State Government, the current governor, Abba Yusuf, and his godfather, Rabiu Musa Kwankwaso.
“Without a whiff of doubt, we know that the attacks on the person of Dr Ganduje are a diversionary tactic to prevent the people of Kano State and the general public at large from seeing the startling cluelessness and paralysing inefficiency of the Abba Yusuf-led administration which has turned governance in the state to a comedy of errors.
“Kano people are asking: What has Governor Yusuf done to positively transform the state since his coming to power almost a year ago despite the increased fiscal allocations accruing to the state from the federation account?
“It’s important to emphasise that the two judicial commissions of inquiry recently empanelled by the state government to probe the activities of former Governor Ganduje in office per alleged misappropriation of public assets and political violence are nothing but mere witch-hunting.
“One is left wondering why the Governor ordered the kangaroo commissions to probe only the activities of the Ganduje administration but conveniently and comfortably exonerated the administration of his godfather, Kwankwaso, from investigation. Does anyone need a soothsayer to know that it’s a wild goose chase meant to squander the resources of the state?
“Of course, it is glaring to all that the rationale for the investigation is ill-motivated in so far that the Kwankwaso administration is exempted from the probe.
“Suddenly, under Governor Yusuf, what is sauce for the goose is no longer sauce for the gander just because the gander belongs to another camp.
“In any case, Dr Ganduje is not afraid of being probed as his records of activities while his tenancy lasted as the Governor of Kano State are an open book for anyone to dissect and peruse.
“It must be stated, however, that such investigation and probe must be carried out by impartial institutions like the EFCC and the ICPC and not the likes of the commissions handpicked by Governor Yusuf whose final result has long been determined even before the probe begins: To give Dr Ganduje a bad name in order to hang it.
“We state that Dr Ganduje has nothing to hide even as he is currently facing the arduous responsibility of repositioning the APC so that it can fulfil the social contract it entered with Nigerians courtesy of the Renewed Hope Agenda of the President Bola Tinubu administration.”
