” What Ex-Gov Ganduje Did In Kano Shocked President Tinubu” – Kwankwaso

Rabiu Kwankwaso, a former governor of Kano State and the New Nigeria Peoples Party’s presidential candidate for the election to be held on February 25, 2023, has disclosed that President Bola Tinubu was shocked by the alleged atrocities committed by Abdullahi Ganduje, the state’s most recent governor.

After a private meeting with the President on Friday, Kwankwaso talked to State House reporters from the Aso Rock Villa. He revealed that Tinubu had called both him and his successor, Ganduje, to the State House to discuss the continuing demolition in Kano State.

Kwankwaso emphasized that the structures that were demolished were illegally obtained by the Ganduje administration in his explanation of the dispute surrounding the demolitions.

He said:

“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 those circumstances 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 it completely and put shops everywhere.”

Kwankwaso added that his party, under Governor Abba Yusuf, was merely fulfilling campaign promises to demolish such structures.

“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 on.”

“And it is our policy to make sure that the encroached areas are returned to them.”