In 2017, Daily Nigerian, an online publication, had released some videos of Ganduje allegedly collecting kickbacks from contractors.
The Kano State Public Complaints and Anti-Corruption Commission (PCACC) has summoned former governor, Abdullahi Ganduje, for questioning over the controversial dollar videos.
In 2017, Daily Nigerian, an online publication, had released some videos of Ganduje allegedly collecting kickbacks from contractors.
The ex-governor had denied the allegation, saying the videos were doctored.
But speaking on Thursday at a one-day public dialogue on “Anti-Corruption Crusade in Kano”, Barrister Muhuyi Magaji Rimingado, chairman of PCACC, said Ganduje had been invited for questioning.
SaharaReporters on Wednesday earlier reported that the PCACC said its forensic analysis confirmed that the dollar videos of ex-Governor Abdullahi Umar Ganduje were not doctored.
He had said since the release of the footages, people had been challenging the commission to prove the innocence or otherwise of the former governor in the matter.
He added that his commission commenced investigation in 2018 but could not go far because Ganduje, who was governor at the time, had immunity.
SaharaReporters had on June 14 reported that Ganduje asked a Kano State High Court to perpetually restrain the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) from investigating him over the video clips which showed him allegedly receiving bundles of dollars from a contractor.
In a suit filed before the high court, the former Attorney General of the State asked the court to restrain the anti-graft commission from probing Ganduje until a suit between the former governor and the publisher of the Daily Nigerian, Jafaar Jafaar, was determined.
The EFCC is the only defendant in the suit.
Ganduje, in the suit with the EFCC as the only respondent, through the former Kano attorney general, asked the court to declare that the invitation and interrogation of the state universal basic education board (SUBEB) chairman and accountant general of the state in connection to the video was illegal.