Kano State Governor, Umar Ganduje, has sacked the state\u2019s Commissioner for Works and Infrastructure, Mu\u2019azu Magaji, for celebrating the death of the Chief of Staff to the President, Abba Kyari.
\nThe Director-General, Media and Communications, Kano State Government, Salihu Yakasai, made this known via his Twitter handle, @Dawisu.
\nHe said, \u201cH.E @GovUmarGanduje has relieved the appointment of the commissioner of Works and Infrastructure, Engr. Mu\u2019azu Magaji with immediate effect following his unguarded utterances against the person of the late Chief of Staff to the President, Malam Abba Kyari.\u201d
\nEarlier the Kano commissioner had taken to his Facebook page to celebrate Kyari\u2019s demise, describing it as freedom for Nigeria,\u00a0The PUNCH\u00a0reports.
\nWriting in English and Hausa, Magaji stated, \u201cWin win\u2026 Nigeria is free and Abba kyari ya mutu a cikin annoba\u2026 Mutuwar shahada in Har da Imani mutum ya cika\u201d.
\nThe translation of the post reads, \u201cWin win\u2026 Nigeria is free and Abba Kyari has died in the epidemic\u2026 the death of a martyr\u2026 if he is a believer, the person is complete.\u201d
\nIn a subsequent post, the commissioner said the office of the chief of staff to the President is too powerful and it should be broken into two.
\nMagaji wrote, \u201cFor the good of Nigeria and Mr President\u2026 The CoS office should be split\u2026 A PPS (principal private secretary) and a humble manager of his office as CoS\u2026 It is currently too powerful for a non-elected official.\u201d
\nReacting to comments that his post elicited, the commissioner said it was nothing personal.
\nHe said Kyari was only a support staffer at the Presidential Villa and his death should be treated as such.
\nMagaji wrote, \u201cNigeria is bigger than any individual\u2026 While praying for the president\u2019s late support staff\u2026 Ours is to prevent a repeat of his non-accountable domineering era!
\n\u201cIn Institutional Democracy, no individual is bigger than the state\u2026 Our interest is to get equity and capacity in the highest position of power. It\u2019s not personal!
\n\u201cI am not a hypocrite and I won\u2019t pretend! While at a personal level I pray Allah to grant Abba Kyari Jannah\u2026 I sincerely believe Nigeria needed a better CoS period!\u201d
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Kano State Governor, Umar Ganduje, has sacked the state\u2019s Commissioner for Works and Infrastructure, Mu\u2019azu Magaji, for celebrating the death of the Chief of Staff to the President, Abba Kyari. The Director-General, Media and Communications, Kano State Government, Salihu Yakasai, made this known via his Twitter handle, @Dawisu. He said, \u201cH.E @GovUmarGanduje has relieved the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":22804,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,8],"tags":[567,90,101],"class_list":["post-25958","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news","category-politics","tag-commissioner","tag-kano","tag-kyari"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25958","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=25958"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25958\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=25958"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=25958"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=25958"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}