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  • JUST IN: EFCC grills ex-Kano governor over alleged mismanagement of N10bn pension fund

    JUST IN: EFCC grills ex-Kano governor over alleged mismanagement of N10bn pension fund

    The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has grilled a former Kano Governor Rabiu Musa Kwankwaso in connection with alleged mismanagement of N10billion pension fund.

    The said pension remittances were alleged to have been used to fund a housing project for some close allies of the ex-governor.

    According to a source, the EFCC invited the former Governor following a petition by some retired employees of the Kano State Government.

    The source said: “Kwankwaso reported to the EFCC today(Saturday) and he is currently being grilled by a team of operatives at the commission’s headquarters Abuja.

    ” He is being questioned over allegations of abuse of office, diversion of public funds and fraudulent allocation of government properties to cronies.

    ” Kwankwaso who is also a chieftain of the Peoples Democratic Party was first invited by the EFCC in September but failed to honour the invitation.”

    Another source said he “may have been invited in relation to a petition by some retired employees of the Kano State Government who had earlier petitioned the EFCC, complaining that the former Governor mismanaged pension remittances to the tune of N10billion between 2011 and 2015, to fund a housing project for cronies.”

    Meanwhile, the anti-graft agency is yet to officially issue a statement confirming the ex-governor’s arrest.

  • Array of aspirants on PDP platform is good omen – Gov. Okowa

    Delta State Governor Ifeanyi Okowa has described the array of aspirants for the presidential ticket of the Peoples’ Democratic Party (PDP) for the 2019 general election as a good omen that will give strength to the party.

    TheNewsGuru (TNG) reports the stated this on Tuesday in Asaba during a consultation visit by the former Governor of Kano State and one of the Presidential aspirants on the platform of the PDP, Senator Rabiu Kwakwanso.

    “We are happy that so many of our party members are coming out to contest for the presidential ticket of our party from the North. It gives strength to the party.

    “All that matters is for the party to manage the situation. I am one person that believes in free and fair election, I talk about it, I preach about it and I live with it, Okowa said.

    The Governor further stated that he believes that people should be allowed to freely decide who will be Nigeria’s presidential candidate in Abuja.

    “We should ensure we provide a level play ground for all our aspirants, especially, in the presidential primaries,” he said, emphasising, “if all aspirants for different positions are aware that there will be a level play ground, they will go all out to meet delegates and canvas for their votes, also, when the result comes out, everybody will accept it as free and fair, this is the right thing to do”.

    He asserted, “as Governor of Delta State, I will not be squeezing the hands of people to a direction, I believe in free and fair election and we shall promote such in our state”.

    While noting that Senator Kwakwanso was working hard to get the presidential ticket, Governor Okowa congratulated him for coming back to the PDP, disclosing that the doors of the party are open to receive people from other political parties.

    Senator Kwakwanso disclosed that he was in Delta State to consult the people concerning his aspiration to contest for the presidential election on the platform of the PDP.

    “How do we save our country? How do we save our party, the PDP? Because, as long as the party does the right thing, the Presidency will move to PDP in 2019,” he stated.

    Earlier, Chairman of PDP in Delta State, Barr. Kingsley Esiso had in a welcome address, stated that Delta State is home to the PDP and will remain so.

     

  • ‘I have not decamped,’ Adolor Okotie-Eboh declares

    Chief Adolor Okotie-Eboh says he has not defected to the Peoples’ Democratic Party (PDP) in Delta State that he remains a staunch member of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in the State.

    Reports emerged on Tuesday that Chief Okotie-Eboh and a number of his followers had left the APC at the visit of former Governor of Kano State, Senator Rabiu Musa Kwankwaso to the State.

    “Its not true,” Okotie-Eboh told TheNewsGuru (TNG); stressing: “I only accompanied my friend, Kwankwaso, on a courtesy visit to Governor Ifeanyi Okowa and nothing more than that”.

    Kwankwaso, a PDP presidential aspirant, paid a consultation visit to Governor Okowa and Delta PDP stakeholders at the Unity Hall Government House Asaba with the APC Chieftain in his entourage.

    “I have not decamped. Kwankwaso is my bosom friend, and I am still a member of the APC. If and only if I am going to decamp, it would be made official,” he told TNG.

    Addressing issues bothering on the current crisis in the Delta APC, Okotie-Eboh said, “The whole issue is being handled by the APC National Chairman, Comrade Adams Oshiomole.

    “I understand there is a panel being set up by the National Chairman that will be coming to Delta to carry out harmonization of the party. I believe that will happen next week”.

    Speaking on the presidential aspiration of Kwankwaso, Okotie-Eboh said, “Anybody is free to aspire for any political position, and Kwankwaso’s case is not different.

    “Like I said earlier, he is my friend and I only accompanied him since he was in my State”.