Hafsat Ganduje had earlier been invited to report to the EFCC's Abuja headquarters on September 13.

By Taiwo-Hassan Adebayo


Hafsat Ganduje, the wife of Governor Abdullahi Ganduje of Kano, has been arrested by the EFCC over a bribery and land fraud case reported by her son, PREMIUM TIMES has learnt. The arrest comes weeks after her failure to honour the anti-graft agency’s invitation.

Mrs Ganduje had earlier been invited to report to the EFCC’s Abuja headquarters on September 13, PREMIUM TIMES reported previously. But she did not appear and the EFCC then threatened to arrest her. Sources close to her later said she travelled to the UK at the time to attend the graduation ceremony of her son.

Investigators are questioning Mrs Ganduje over allegations relating to land fraud in a petition by her own son, Abdualzeez Ganduje.

A person, who has the knowledge of the arrest but asked not to be identified, said “she was arrested this (Monday) evening.”

Mrs Ganduje was still at EFCC headquarters as of 6a.m. on Monday, this newspaper learnt.


Background

Abdulazeez had dragged his mum, Hafsat Ganduje, to the EFCC, sources familiar with the matter said, suggesting a pattern of corruptly using family access to power for private enrichment.

Mr Ganduje, the governor, had previously been involved in a corruption-related scandal. He has struggled to untangle himself from the public perception that he is a corrupt public servant since 2018 when Daily Nigerian published a series of videos that showed the governor collecting money from a government contractor.

According to sources who saw Abdulazeez’s petition, he reported that he was approached by a property developer to help facilitate the acquisition of some plots of land in Kano with some hundreds of thousands of US dollars and at least 35 million naira as “facilitation commission”.

PREMIUM TIMES further learnt that Abdulazeez said he paid the sum in dollars to his mother, Mrs Ganduje.

“But three months later, (the property developer) discovered that the plots of land he wanted and had paid the first family for had been allocated to other buyers and he then requested to be refunded,” one source added.

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Finally she has been arrested.

I just hope due diligence and investigation is carried out so as miscarriage of justice won't occur.

Only on a single transaction she's to get #35m as facilitation fees, imagine how much other transactions will fetch. No wonder these politicians do all they can to perpetuate themselves in power to continue making money by hook or by crook.

The person paying the facilitation fee should be arrested too

Ok

Ganduje is a puppet in the hands of his wife.

That woman is the most powerful state First lady.

It's a family thing. Like husband, like wife, like children. But the Ganjude will still come behind High Chief James Onanefe Ibori who was jailed together with his wife, his sister-inlaw, his mistress(another man's wife) and his lawyer. That's a Guinness record for Corruption and Heartlessness

Good, but hope this is not initial gra gra by EFCC to hoodwink the populace

Las Las nothing go come out...

What happens to hisbah police?
Why can't sharia law be effective on her?

kingphilip:
Finally she has been arrested.

I just hope due diligence and investigation is carried out so as miscarriage of justice won't occur.

Only on a single transaction she's to get #35m as facilitation fees, imagine how much other transactions will fetch. No wonder these politicians do all they can to perpetuate themselves in power to continue making money by hook or by crook.

The person paying the facilitation fee should be arrested too

Rubbish fabrication, EFCC will arrest the Governor’s wife from an I hearsay story from her son? People no just gree get sense.

Gandollars should chook hand inside agbada to save his greedy wife from this embarrassment. I trust the EFCC to give her a soft landing

aremuforlife:
What happens to hisbah police?
Why can't sharia law be effective on her?

They said their religion does not criticise nor arrest corrupt leaders. Definitely, they are not talking about my Islam.

Ghanduje the bribe loving favourite son of the head of the most corrupt government Nigeria has ever had.
The wife of the above described individual is summoned by the EFCC,ignores the summons,travels to the UK through the airport,enjoys her weeks stay there comes back and goes to pay the EFCC a visit at her own convenient time,yet anyone expects anything useful to come out from this?
The several weeks this woman was left to do whatever she wants is enough for she and her husband to forge documents,bribe or even threaten her accusers or potential witnesses to her alleged crime.
The whiteman that rushes to seal off a crime scene immediately it's detected or orders seizure of documents and restricts movement of persons of interest in a case does it for a commonsense reason,to avoid tampering of evidence with time.
But here we all make a f ool ofourselves claiming to be investigating a crime.

Rexwalters1:
Rubbish fabrication, EFCC will arrest the Governor’s wife from an I hearsay story from her son? People no just gree get sense.

You even get brain, so sense is not expected

Corporate2020:


They said their religion does not criticise nor arrest corrupt leaders. Definitely, they are not talking about my Islam.

That is hypocrite, you can't tell otherwise, it is high time the mass revolt against such law

Nigeria media heh

Some of them are saying EFCC arrests

While some are saying EFCC invites

Which one should we believe now

Good..hope its not just media hype

Ok

APC: the more we look, the less we see.

Believe the arrest at your peril

The Ganduje family should get their acts together and stop embarrassing the good people of Kano. How can mother and son be duping each other and still make it an EFCC matter? Are there no elders in the family to call both of them and settle it within? The show of shame should stop!

No room for corruption in Nigeria.
This is yet another proof that under President Buhari's administration the fight against corruption is not one sided.

Finally

Efcc should parade her with sign post. She is a yahoo mummy

Abi

She should be given that their placard carrying the inscription of her offense and picture for us to confirm if she was arrested truly by EFCC

Ok

They will soon release her, it’s just for media

They wan use us take cruise

Great! When will EFCC arrest the IPOB armed robber Peter Obi.

ARREST FOR NORMAL PUBLIC CHARADE