Gov Ganduje, Kwankwaso fall out

Kano State governor, Dr. Abdullahi Umar Ganduje is not happy with his predecessor, Senator Rabiu Musa Kwankwaso, and he has threatened to spill the beans on the administration of Kwankwaso.
He lamented that for one, Kwankwaso had distorted the state’s scholarship programme which is now making it difficult for the current administration to pay.
Ganduje, while hosting the leadership of Kano students abroad under the aegis of General Association of Northern Nigeria Students, based in Egypt, said “For one year, Kwankwaso did not pay a single kobo as tuition fee for our students studying abroad.
“Right now, Kano State government owes those students N3 billion, and painfully, our revenue is dwindling and we would be cautious in handling the situation”.

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The new Kano helsman revealed that the delay in the payment of the tuition fees was caused by the Kwankwaso administration, even as he stressed: “For whatever reasons, the Kwankwaso administration distorted the scholarship programme”.
The enraged governor told the leadership of the students: “I’ve decided to let the cat out of the bag so that, as educated people, you would understand where your problems lie”.
It was learnt that last Wednesday weekly state executive meeting, presided over by Ganduja, had condemned the failure of the Kwankwaso administration to fulfill financial obligation to the programme despite the allegation that huge amounts of money in foreign currency were allocated to it by the former regime.

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