Rabiu Kwankwaso, senator representing
Kano central, says President Muhammadu Buhari was misinformed to have said he
diverted state funds for his presidential campaign.
While speaking to the Nigerian
community in France earlier in the month, Buhari said Ganduje was very
responsible to have continued and completed the projects started by Kwankwaso,
his predecessor.
The president said someone else
could have diverted funds meant for completing the projects.
Although he did not mention the
name of Kwankwaso, it was clear that Buhari was referring to Kwankwaso.
“I compliment the governor for
doing so much. He invited me, I went to Kano, the good projects started by
Kwankwaso in education and healthcare, which is [where] a lot of emphasis
should be made for ordinary Nigerians, the majority, poor Nigerians, Ganduje
completed them,” Buhari had said.
“If it were another person, he
could have left them to show them this is the project he started, he diverted
the balance to go and contest for presidency, instead of completing it.”
But reacting when he featured on
Aminchi FM, a radio station in Kano, Kwankwaso, a former presidential aspirant,
said it is untrue that Ganduje completed the good projects he abandoned.
“The president was misinformed,
he has no idea about what is going on in Kano,” he said.
“There is no project left behind
by me that was completed by Ganduje. What he completed are the former Governor
Shekarau’s uncompleted projects, not mine.
“I instructed my supporters not
to react to that as there was no need because those informing the president
lied to him.”
He said the projects being
referred to were initiated and left behind by Ibrahim Shekarau, a former
governor of Kano, who has now joined the ruling All Progressive Congress (APC).
Concerning the videos of Ganduje
allegedly collecting bribe from contractors, Kwankwaso said he was privy to the
video before it was made public.
He said he appealed to those in
possession of the videos not to release them but they rejected his plea.
Kwankwaso described the videos as
an embarrassment to the state and its people.
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