{"id":64327,"date":"2023-05-29T22:58:13","date_gmt":"2023-05-29T22:58:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/?p=64327"},"modified":"2023-05-29T22:58:13","modified_gmt":"2023-05-29T22:58:13","slug":"after-drama-over-chair-kano-governor-laments-huge-debt-left-by-ganduje-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/?p=64327","title":{"rendered":"After drama over chair, Kano governor laments huge debt left by Ganduje (+Video)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After a mild drama in rejecting his official seat as new governor, Kano State governor, Abba Kabir Yusuf is lamenting the huge debt left him by his predecessor and has vowed to investigate it.<\/p>\n<p>Kano State Governor Abba Kabir Yusuf has indicated that his predecessor, former governor Abdullahi Umar Ganduje, has left a debt burden of 240 billion naira for his government<\/p>\n<p>The newly sworn in Governor spoke at the Ante Chamber, Government House Kano shortly after Alhaji Usman Alhaji, the former Secretary to the State Government (SSG) handed over the documents to him on behalf of his erstwhile principal, Dr. Abdullahi Umar Ganduje on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>Apparently piqued by the summary of what he saw, he said his administration will certainly investigate the high debt profile, how Ganduje acquired them, and what they were used for.<\/p>\n<div class=\"code-block code-block-2\">\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div id=\"aswift_2_host\" tabindex=\"0\" title=\"Advertisement\" aria-label=\"Advertisement\"><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>He was accompanied to the official handing over ceremony at the Government House by the NNPP Transition Committee Chairman, Dr Baffa Bichi, Ganduje\u2019s former, Deputy, Professor Hafiz Abubakar, Alhaji Salisu Yahaya Hotoro and hundreds of red cap wearing supporters.<\/p>\n<p>Immediately after the brief ceremony, Yusuf moved with his convoy to Sani Abacha Stadium, where he joined hundreds of supporters for the swearing in by the Kano State Chief Judge.<\/p>\n<p>\u25aa\ufe0e Additional report by <strong>National Update<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>See video over chair drama below:<\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">VIDEO: New Kano State governor, Abba Kabir Yusuf, declines to use the official seat formerly used by former Governor Ganduje, on Monday. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/bWvvkWDEKI\">pic.twitter.com\/bWvvkWDEKI<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; LEADERSHIP NEWS (@LeadershipNGA) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/LeadershipNGA\/status\/1663161266251104257?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">May 29, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After a mild drama in rejecting his official seat as new governor, Kano State governor, Abba Kabir Yusuf is lamenting the huge debt left him by his predecessor and has vowed to investigate it. Kano State Governor Abba Kabir Yusuf has indicated that his predecessor, former governor Abdullahi Umar Ganduje, has left a debt burden [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":64326,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,7],"tags":[3727,90,745],"class_list":["post-64327","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-business","category-news","tag-drama","tag-kano","tag-yusuf"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64327","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=64327"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64327\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/64326"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=64327"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=64327"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=64327"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}