Governor Abdullahi Umar Ganduje of Kano State is not under the watch of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission ( EFCC).
The state Commissioner for Information, Malam Muhammad Garba, made the denial in a statement in Abuja on Sunday to counter media reports saying his principal was among three governors being watched by the EFCC for allegedly stashing currencies.
The reports are lies that Governor Ganduje was among the three governors fingered as having stashed away funds in their houses, adding that while the EFCC did not mention the identity of the governors, the online publication, the reports fingered Ganduje.
In the words of the commissioner, “the report, “which lacks texture for an investigative story,” was either the imagination of the publishers or a deliberate attempt to tarnish the governor’s image.
Garba denied that Governor Ganduje stashed millions any where at all, adding his state government consistently pays its workers’ salary, even as, at the time of the release of the false report, posting of the October salary had commenced.
He, therefore, called for the “retraction of the story and an unreserved apology from the publishers, failure of which the state government would not hesitate to take legal action.”
