By Suleiman Anyalewechi
Amidst complaints of low quality food being served beneficiaries and shoddy administration of the Kano Government free Ramadan Feeding Programme, the Kano State Chapter of the All progressive Congress APC has asked the New Nigeria Peoples Party, NNPP, controlled State Government to account for the about N6 billion budgeted for the exercise.
At Dawakin Kudu Local Council on Saturday, March 23, 2024 for the flag off of distribution of palliatives to its members across the State, the Kano State APC Chairman Alhaji Abdullahi Abbas described the ongoing Kano State government sponsored Ramadan feeding programme as a sham.
According to him, since the state generously benefited from palliatives’ gestures from the Federal Government, Dangote Foundation, BUA and others ,the Kano State authorities should be getting set to explain to the good people of kano, what they are spending N6 billion on.
The Chairman noted that the palliatives/ Ramadan gestures the APC is extending to its members were procured through individual and collective efforts of the likes of the National Chairman of the APC, the immediate past Governor of Kano State ,Dr Abdullahi Umar Ganduje , the Deputy Senate president Senator Jibrin Barau , APC Gubernatorial Candidate and his Deputy in the last General Elections Dr Nasiru Yusuf Gawuna and Sule Garo respectively, as well as many other party stalwarts.
According to the Chief of Staff to the APC National Chairman, Malam Mohammed Garba who stood in for his boss at the flag off ceremony, all the party members in all the 484 wards of Kano are targeted by the palliatives distribution.
He noted that since the APC is not in power in the State ,its leaders and chieftains had to come together to see how the Party could intervene to ameliorate the challenges of the people.
Malam Mohammed who was also the immediate past Kano State Commissioner for Information assured APC followers and all the good people of the State of continued support from the Party’s top hierarchy.
