The enraged Ganduje while briefing the State House correspondents after meeting behind close doors with President Bola Tinubu on Friday accused Kwankaso of being behind the ongoing demolition in the state.
The immediate past governor of Kano State, Abdullahi Ganduje, who seems to be infuriated by the ongoing demolition by the Governor of Kano State, Abba Kabir Yusuf, has said he could have slapped the 2023 Presidential candidate of the New Nigeria People’s Party, NNPP, Rabiu Musa Kwankaso if he saw him at the presidential Villa, Abuja.
The enraged Ganduje while briefing the State House correspondents after meeting behind close doors with President Bola Tinubu on Friday accused Kwankaso of being behind the ongoing demolition in the state.
Fuming while speaking with State House journalists, Ganduje said if he had met Kwankwaso at the Villa, he could have slapped him, Vanguard reports.
The former governor said he met with President Tinubu to brief him on the security situation in Kano State following the demolition exercise embarked upon by the administration of Governor Yusuf.
Fielding questions on whether he met Kwankwaso who was equally around in the Villa with the president, he said, “I know he is in the building but we have not met. Probably if we met, maybe I could have slapped him.”
Ganduje said the demolition exercise was done without carrying out any investigation or giving due notice in line with the provisions of the Land Use Act.
The former governor said he spoke at length on the issue while reporting the matter to the president and had petitioned the Inspector General of Police, Usman Alkali Baba with video evidences of the looting and vandalisation that trailed the demolition.
Ganduje said he had briefed the president adequately on the demolition exercise that even affected the supporters of Kwankwaso whom he accused of ordering the action.
He said the governor who he described as a “stooge” of Kwankwaso was no longer happy because of the condemnation that greeted the move.
Asked to give figures to properties lost to the demolition exercise, he said some human rights organisations were working on the level of damage.
He, however, said one of the developers who was affected had sued the government demanding over N10 billion.
Ganduje was the deputy governor to Kwankwaso, but the two have become like cat and dog in recent years.