Governor Umar Abdullahi Ganduje of Kano State has come hard on President Muhammadu Buhari for refusing to abide by the Supreme Court order and going ahead with the ban on the old Naira notes.
In an audio recording on Thursday, February 16, 2023, Ganduje was quoted in vernacular asking, that, “President Buhari should remember that for several times he was trying to contest Presidency but he couldn’t make it until there was an alliance, but now after enjoying everything, he turned back against the same democratic system that saw him to office”.
He said, “the President should remember that this is a democratic setting that allows popular voice and leaders to listen to advice and adhere strictly to that advice.
“I wonder why the President is hellbent in making the same Party that helped him to win elections lose out, what did we do to him that he is this ignorant on several advice forwarded to him”.
“This same Buhari he contested again and again but he couldn’t win not until there was an alliance, now he wins and win again for the second term, but now that he is living, he wants to cripple the same Party that brought him to power why?
“This Currency Swap Policy, why didn’t the President bring it seven and a half years ago or after elections, but now one must be compelled to think that there is an ulterior motive in the whole thing.”
Ganduje, who somehow exonerated the CBN Governor, Godwin Emefiele, said, “the CBN Governor don’t know anything; you now set the Nation Apex Bank on fire with this policy”.
The Governor worried that even World Bank, IMF, and other financial Institutions have advised the President to think twice on the negative policy but he turned deaf ears.
Kano: 2 Comedians Sentenced To Brutal Flogging For ‘Insulting’ Governor Ganduje On Tiktok
Two standup comedians in Kano state, Mubarak Isa Muhammad and Nazifi Muhammad Bala, on Monday, November 7, 2022, got unusual punishments for defaming the character of Governor Abdullahi Umar Ganduje on their Tiktok accounts.
Kano State Magistrate Court presided over by Aminu Muhammad Gabari on Monday, November 7, 2022, ordered that the duo be thrashed 20 lashes of the cane.
Gabari also ruled that the two comedians will sweep and wash the toilets on the premises of the Magistrate Court located at Noman’s Land area of Kano metropolis for 30 days.
First Information Report had accused the entertainment duo of defaming Ganduje’s character on their verified Tiktok account.
“They will receive 20 lashes each, to be administered in the public. They should also sweep and wash the toilets of Justice Aloma Mukthar Court Complex in No-man’s-land,” the judge ruled.
The court also ordered the two accused to pay a fine of N10,000 each for defaming the character of Ganduje.
They will pay another fine of N10,000 each for “inciting public disturbance.”
Senior Magistrate Gabari similarly administered non-custodial terms against the convicts and ordered them to produce a video on social media tendering an apology to Governor Ganduje.
The convicts had pleaded guilty to the two-count charges of defamation and inciting public disturbance slammed against them.
It was gathered the prosecutor, Barr. Wada Ahmad Wada, the Principal State Counsel, Kano State Ministry of Justice applied for a summary trial against the comedians.
Source: Daily Post
