Abdullahi Ganduje, a former governor of Kano State, bemoaned the demolition of various buildings in Kano State by the Abba Yusuf-led administration on Friday in Abuja and blamed his predecessor, Rabiu Kwankwaso, for orchestrating the action.
If they had crossed paths in Aso Villa, he claimed he would have slapped Kwankwaso.
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After a private meeting with President Bola Tinubu at the Aso Rock Villa on Friday night, Ganduje spoke to State House reporters immediately afterward.
The previous governor, who was inconsolable, said that the demolitions were carried out without following the law’s proper procedures.
On the platform of the New Nigeria Peoples Party, Rabiu Kwankwaso stood for president but lost; nevertheless, the party’s nominee for governor of Kano State, Abba Yusuf, won.
The long-simmering conflict between the NNPP and the All Progressives Congress, whose candidate lost the governorship contest, recently got ugly.
In what the APC had termed a political backlash, the new state governor Abba Yusuf, in his inauguration speech on May 29, gave a marching order to security agencies in Kano to immediately repossess all public properties believed to have been sold by the Ganduje administration.
He claimed that they were obtained and constructed unlawfully.
Among the buildings destroyed in the most recent disaster were the Haji Camp, the Daula Hotel, and commercial centres near the Eid Prayer Ground in Kano, all of which, according to Ganduje, were the result of PPPs.
From 1999 to 2003 and again from 2011 to 2015, Ganduje served as Kwankwaso’s deputy. He accused Kwankwaso of ordering Aliyu to conduct what he called a spiteful campaign against the previous administration.
Ganduje claimed that despite the fact that both guys were in the Villa at the same time to visit the President, they did not actually cross paths.
Although both men were in the Villa at the same period to see the President, Ganduje said they did not meet face to face.
When asked about the President’s response and if they had reconciled inside the Villa, Ganduje said;
I know that he is in the building. But we did not meet inside. I would have slapped him if I met him inside.
