The All Progressives Congress (APC), Kano State chapter, has raised the alarm over an alleged plot by the New Nigerian Individuals’s Social gathering (NNPP) led administration to misappropriate the funds of the native councils within the North West state.
Alhaji Abdullahi Abbas, Chairman Kano State APC, in an announcement on Tuesday, urged business banks to halt the method of clearing the discharge of the funds on the eve of the Supreme Court docket pronouncement on the Kano State Governor, Abba Yusuf’s petition earlier than the apex courtroom.
A five-member panel of the Supreme Court docket headed by John Okoro had on December 20, after listening to the enchantment filed earlier than it by the NNPP difficult the nullification of Governor Yusuf’s victory by the Court docket of Enchantment, disclosed {that a} date for its judgement could be communicated to each events.
Nonetheless, trqhe APC within the assertion cautioned banks to be cautious of launch of the fund primarily based on what it referred to as the NNPP’s administration unreliability.
Abbas stated the APC in Kano has gotten a replica of the letter of conveyance of approval from the Ministry for Native Authorities directing the 44 native councils to launch the sum of N101,655,000.38 million and N3,607,370,858.00 million every for the development of Dan’Agundi and Tal’udu Interchanges respectively.
Abbas identified that the approval letter, which was despatched to all council’s chairmen, copied to the Auditor-Basic, native authorities audit and all zonal inspectors of the ministry, was for the contribution of the councils to the initiatives.
The Social gathering Chairman famous that simply on Friday, the federal government eliminated and posted new Administrators of Personnel Administration (DPMs) and treasurers to make sure that there aren’t any hitches in muscling the native councils by the embezzlement of their funds.
He acknowledged that the choice to embark on such initiatives at the moment has come beneath assault even by folks inside the NNPP’s fold and referred to as on the federal government to rethink it within the curiosity of the event of Kano state.