Amid the brouhaha still trailing the allegation levelled against Kano State governor, Abdullahi Umar Ganduje, of collecting kickbacks from contractors, the National secretariat of the All Progressive Congress, APC, has said it would not substitute his name in 2019 election. Ganduje Also, a high-ranking member of the state chapter of party claimed the alleged dollar bribes were donations made for political campaigns in the state. Civil Society Coalition seeks accelerated hearing in Kano anti-graft Commission’s appeal An online newspaper, Daily Nigerian, had a month ago, released video footages captured with a spy camera showing Governor Ganduje allegedly receiving $5 million bribe from a contractor. On whether the embattled governor will eventually be dropped as APC’s Kano gubernatorial candidate, in view of published video clips, the party’s National Publicity Secretary, Mr. Lanre Issa Onilu, told PRNigeria that Ganduje remained the standard bearer of APC in next year’s governorship election. Int’l friendly: Cranes of Uganda hold Super Eagles to goalless draw Onilu, who clearly pointed out that the party lacked the power to change or arbitrarily substitute a bonafide candidate, said: ‘’The INEC guidelines on the selection or replacement of candidates are explicit. It doesn’t confer power on political parties to whimsically, arbitrarily or recklessly just substitute a candidate on frivolous grounds. “It is only when a candidate dies, voluntarily withdraws from contesting an election, or a court pronouncement that a candidate can then be substituted or replaced, if you like.

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"...Ganduje Also, a high-ranking member of the state chapter of party claimed the alleged dollar bribes were donations made for political campaigns in the state...."

Was this statement really made by Gov.Ganduje or it's sheer stupidity And this electoral act permits up to $5M & it must be from contractors handling state projects? This man is incredibly stupid just insulting the collective sensibility of reasonable Nigerians.

Nothing anew! After all Buhari the "most holy" anti-
corruption have long canonized this crook.

"President Muhammadu Buhari......has mentioned that Kano State governor, Umar Ganduje is a responsible leader despite allegations of the governor receiving bribes putting his position in question...."

Failed country.

Thank God sentiments and emotional unintelegence doesn't matter in politics and rule of law. If the bribe giver is ready to testify in a law court just like otedola did then we can proceed with prosecuting ganduje or banning him from political activity. Last time I checked, no law states that a governor should not be seen with foreign currency, and the responsibility lies with the accusers or the prosecutors to provide witnesses and evidence

Truly PDP is afraid of APC, why forcing APC to drop all their first eleven through propaganda when a tactical strategic campaign can do the magic


Same way they are concerned with sponsoring propaganda that will disqualify PMB from contesting even when they claim to have used 18 months to plan how to make Nigeria work again


The question is did Nigeria work when he ruled?....how can u make it work when it has never worked during your first outing?

EFCC will do her underground investigation and wait for the expiration of his immunity

The saints And The Untouchables.
Our security parastatals has just been confined to being just Lapdogs to The present administration and they only hunt opposition parties members in their so called corruption campaign.

iammo:
Thank God sentiments and emotional unintelegence doesn't matter in politics and rule of law. If the bribe giver is ready to testify in law court just like otedola did then we can proceed with prosecuting ganduje or banning him from political activity

The contractor was willing to testify, but Ganduje got a court order restraining both the house of Assembly and the publisher of the videos.

This isn't right. Hopefully voters will drop him

dutchbruv:

The contractor was willing to testify, but Ganduje got a court order restraining both the house of Assembly and the publisher of the videos.

Jafar jafar isn't a contractor, even if he published the said video, at no time did any contractor come out with his face shown given a bribe. As for the court injunction, ganduje has immunity just like fayose, which protects him from investigation even after the confession of principal witness like obanikoro, the helicopter company and the bankers

We have foolish peopls in power thats concentrated on the opposition party and plagiarism.

This country is a total mess.


Spits

iammo:


Jafar jafar isn't a contractor, even if he published the said video, at no time did any contractor come out with his face shown given a bribe. As for the court injunction, ganduje has immunity just like fayose, which protects him from investigation even after the confession of principal witness like obanikoro, the helicopter company and the bankers

Jafaar said the contractor was willing to testify before the House. Why did EFCC freeze Ekiti and Benue state accounts? Why wasn't the same measure applied to Kano.
Buhari is a useless corrupt hypocrite who has made Nigeria the poverty capital of the world, through actions such as turning a blind eye to the massive corruption that has seen Nigeria drop 12 places in Transparency Internation rating.

their way

So much about the war on anti corruption