Ibrahim Musa, Kano
A community development group under the umbrella of Kumbotso Local Government Youth Awareness (KLGYA) has petitioned the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) and the Accountant General of the Federation (AGF) among others urging for the authorities’ concern not to release Kumbotso’s grant in respect of the contest for the position of chairmanship alleging that the Chairman of the local government was illegally sworn in.
The two-page petition, jointly signed by the group’s secretary Adamu Garba Bechi and its Chairman Sanusi Saleh Haske, alleges that Ali Musa Dan Maliki of the New Nigeria Peoples Party (NNPP) had filed an action against the NNPP Abdullahi Ghall and the Kano State Independent Electoral Commission (KANSIEC) challenging the NNPP’s decision to replace him after winning the party’s primary election.
The group also claimed that KANSIEC had illegally substituted Ali Musa Dan Malikl’s name with Abdullahi Ghali’s without following a justifiable means, adding that Ali Musa Dan Maliki had already obtained a court judgment against the NNPP Abdullahi Ghali and KANSIEC before the conduct of the Local Government election.
“We urge you all to instruct the appropriate authorities responsible for releasing local government’s Grants to suspend the release of grants to Kumbotso local government for being unlawfully chaired by a personality that didn’t contest the election until when NNPP effectively rectified the wrongs done,” the petition stated.
