The embattled Chairman of the Kano State Anti-Corruption and Public Complaints Commission, Muhuyi Magaji, says he is being instigated by some persons to investigate the current governor of the state, Abba Kabir.

Magaji, who stated this on Channels Television’s Sunrise Daily programme on Tuesday said he started probing the National Chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Abdullahi Ganduje, when he was governor of the North-West state.

Magaji said though he was appointed by Ganduje to head the agency, he won’t hesitate to prosecute alleged corruption by the immediate-past administration in the state.

He said, “Incidentally, His Excellency, the former governor was the one that appointed me in 2015 to to head the agency and I was re-appointed in 2020 for another five-year term. Basically, we have an institution in the Public Complaints and Anti-Corruption Commission that is devoid political activities and dedicated to fight corruption, check maladministration and fight injustice.”

“We are not desperate to prosecute Ganduje,” said the state anti-graft chairman who insisted that public officials be accountable.

When asked whether he would also probe the current governor, Magaji said, “That is what people are instigating.”

The Kano anti-graft chairman, who said he was being viewed as a “stubborn person” in some quarters, insisted that the court ruled that money laundering was a federal offence but the commission has the right to probe alleged corruption and maladministration by the Ganduje administration.

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Meanwhile, the Kano High Court would arraign Ganduje on Wednesday, April 17, 2024, on charges bordering on allegations of bribery, diversion, and misappropriation of funds, including the purported acceptance of $413,000 and N1.38bn in bribes.

Ganduje, who was Kano governor between May 2015 and May 2023, has been under pressure to resign his position as the APC national chairman.

The situation took a new twist on Monday with some APC executives in Ganduje’s ward in Kano suspending him and insisting that he exonerates himself of corruption charges levelled against him by the state government. However, the state executives of the party dismissed the suspension and sanctioned the ward officials involved. (Channels TV: Text, Excluding Headline)

•(FILES) L-R: Kano State Governor, Abba Kabir Yusuf and the chairman of the Public Complaints and Anti-Corruption Commission (PCACC), Magaji Muhuyi

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