Adedayo Akinwale in Abuja
A group, the Progressive Foundational Movement (PFM), has cautioned the Governor of Kano State, Abba Yusuf, not to wipe out the achievements of former governor Abdullahi Ganduje.
The group in a statement issued yesterday by its spokesman, Jamilu Sani, frowned at the brazen way the Yusuf-led administration was going about carrying out wanton destruction of public properties without due process.
It decried the manner Yusuf in less than a week after his assumption of office demolished beautiful edifices worth billions of Naira in the ancient city.
It noted: “We are taken aback by the reckless demolition exercise ongoing in Kano state. It is worrisome to see how people are losing their business in the name of demolition. How will you put people, your subjects, into this kind of misery because you hate your processor Ganduje.
“Ganduje as the architect of modern Kano has done his best for the state. We are, however, calling on the elders of the state, particularly governor Yusuf’s political leader and boss former governor Rabiu Musa kwankwaso to call the Governor to order before it’s too late.”
The group pointed out that the demolition of Daula Hotel which, according to him, was a Public Private Partnership between the state and a private company, noting that such action would send a wrong signal to prospective investors.
It said at a time Kano state, which is the commercial nerve centre of northern Nigeria, needed investors to boost its internally generated revenue, instead of wooing investors the state government was undermining investment drive of the former government of Ganduje in the state.
The group, therefore, appealed to Governor Yusuf to focus on his mandate instead of embarking on the mission to destroy Ganduje’s huge footprints in Kano state
