Ganduje Orders Emergency Allocation Of Land To Kano INEC Officers (Images)

The governor of Kano State, Abdullahi Ganduje, has ordered speedy allocation of lands to officers of the Unbiased Nationwide Electoral Fee, INEC in Kano State forward of the March 9 governorship election, DAILY NIGERIAN report.

Credible sources advised this newspaper that the governor granted the approval to “some high officers” of INEC on the eve of the overall election.

Weeks to the overall election, leaked copies of the appliance types obtained by DAILY NIGERIAN revealed that Mr Ganduje, on February 5 directed the Everlasting Secretary of the Kano State Bureau for Land Administration, Muhammad Yusuf-Danduwa to course of the allocation.

The governor is the de facto commissioner of Land because the integration of the Ministry of Lands and Bodily Planning with Kano Geographic Data System, KANGIS, in June 2007, which gave delivery to the Kano State Bureau for Land Administration.

However a lot of the allocation types seen by DAILY NIGERIAN contained minutes of the governor giving directive to the everlasting secretary to “course of early”.

Already, sources stated, the allocations for the plots at at Umarawa, Bandirawo and different locations have been authorized by the governor.

When contacted for remark, Mr Yusuf-Danduwa neither picked our reporter’s name nor responded to a textual content message looking for his response to the last-minute allocations to the electoral officers.

INEC spokesman in Kano, Garba Lawan, stated he would direct DAILY NIGERIAN inquiry to the Resident Electoral Commissioner, REC, Riskuwa Shehu, “in a short time”.

However a number of calls to the INEC spokesman two hours after the primary inquiry haven’t been responded to.

Mr Ganduje is dealing with a supplementary election tomorrow (Saturday) together with his main contender, Abba Kabir-Yusuf of Peoples Democratic Social gathering, PDP.

The re-run election would happen in 28 native authorities areas, with 75 registration factors in 207 polling models whose outcomes have been all cancelled.

A complete of 128,324 registered voters are anticipated to take part within the rerun elections in all of the affected areas.