Kano State Governor,Governor Abdullahi Ganduje has told the governor-elect, Abba Kabir Yusuf, that he is still in charge.
Gov.Ganduje said this while reacting to a public warning issued by Yusuf yesterday.
The governor-elect popularly known as Abba-Gida- Gida had asked people to avoid construction on public buildings including schools, cemetery and others and public places so as not to regret their actions.
But Ganduje in a statement by his commissioner for Information and Internal Affairs, Malam Muhammad Garba, Ganduje Friday called Yusuf to order . He asked him to stop issuing official orders as he is not yet a governor until he takes the oath of office on May 29.
, “The action of the governor-elect amounts to jumping the gun by issuing directive on a matter affecting government laid down policy while the incumbent is yet to run his full term.”
“Until he subscribes to the oath of office as governor on May 29, he remains what he is, a governor-elect, and does not have the powers of the governor. All he can do is to reverse some of the actions taken by his predecessor when he assumes office, if there is a valid reason to do so. No governor-elect has the constitutional or legal powers to determine the direction of a state until he is sworn in,” the statement added.
Ganduje said that as governor, he wields enormous powers to allocate plots of land, emphasising that every government had undertaken such exercise, including the previous administration which the governor-elect served under.
According to him, based on available records, the previous administration had made land allocation in some of the public places the governor-elect categorically mentioned which include the city wall, with allocation of land from Kofar Nassarawa to Kofar Mata; shops at the Kofar Mata Eid Prayer Ground facing the Orion Cinema and from Kofar Mata to ‘Yan yashi opposite the Eid Ground and from Kofar Kabuga to Kofar Famfo facing the old Campus of Bayero University.
