The Governor Of Kano State, Abdullahi Ganduje, has, after the massive resignations of his Commissioners prior to party primaries for political offices, appointed new commissioners to replace those that left.
Ganduje on Monday forwarded a list of eight nominees for the positions of commissioners to the state House of Assembly for confirmation.
The Speaker of the House, Hamisu Chidari, read the names in a governor’s letter at plenary on Monday.
Chidari listed the names as Ibrahim Dan’azumi Gwarzo, Abdulhalim Liman Dan Maliki, Lamin Sani Zawiyya, Ya’u Abdullahi Yanshana, Garba Yusif Abubakar, Yusif Jibril Rurum, Adamu Abdu Panda and Saleh Kausani.
Among those appointed as new commissioners, Senator Ibrahim Shekarau, and Malam Garba, Yusuf Abubakar are strong allies of the former Governor of Kano State, Rabiu Musa Kwankwaso.
Prior to the conduct of the primary election by Nigerian political parties, a number of commissioners resigned from Governor Abdullahi Umar Ganduje’s cabinet.
It was on record that Garba Yusuf Abubakar, was among the cabals that run the affairs of Governor Malam Ibrahim Shekarau’s government for 8 years from 2003 to 2015 and has held portfolios of Information, land and physical planning, and state’s ministry of finance throughout the 8-year tenure of Malam Ibrahim Shekarau.
People never thought Garba Yusuf Abubakar will fell out with his close friend and ally for many decades.
Garba Yusuf Abubakar is popularly known in Kano as Garba Izala due to his affinity with Jamaatu Izalatul Bidia Wa ikamatussunnah.
Due to an internal party crisis Malam Ibrahim Shekarau now a senator representing Kano central has joined the Rabiu Musa Kwankwaso’s New Nigeria People’s Party, NNPP, and has since clinched the senatorial ticket of the party for the 2023 general elections.
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