The All Progressive Congress, APC, Kano State has insisted that the untidy, and opaque manner that characterized the disbursement of past Federal Government palliatives by the New Nigeria Peoples Party NNPP-led State authorities forced a re-think on the part of the President Bola Tinubu’s administration.
The Source reports that last weekend, Senator Rabiu Musa Kwankwaso, NNPP Presidential candidate in the 2023 election and Governor Abba Yusuf’s political godfather, had taken a swipe on the decision by the Federal Government to route future palliatives through the a multi-Party committee in Kano.
For one, past palliatives distributions channelled through the State Government had been mired by allegations of diversions by some highly placed Kano State Government functionaries.
About two months ago, the APC in the State, raised the alarm concerning the alleged diversion of Federal Government branded rice meant for the vulnerable, by the Chief of Staff to the Governor, Shehu Sagagi, and other top Kano State Government officials.
The Federal Government has since constituted an all-inclusive distribution committee, to henceforth receive and disburse palliatives meant for Kano State.
Head of the Committee and Deputy Senate President Jubril Barau, last weekend informed that President Tinubu had been uncomfortable with the avalanche of complaints coming from Kano concerning the disbursement pattern of palliatives, hence the decision to form the committee.
However, to ensure fairness and justice, some of the Committee members were also drawn from the Peoples Democratic Party PDP and the ruling NNPP.
In a statement on his official site on Tuesday, September 10, 2024, the Kano State Chairman of APC, Prince Abdullahi Abbas, accused the NNPP-led State authorities of deliberately sabotaging the efforts of the Federal Government in ameliorating the hardship being experienced by the people.
Reacting to Kwankwaso’s. allegation that palliatives distribution in the State has now been taken over by the APC, Prince Abbas insisted that the decision to review the existing disbursement template was as a result of President Tinubu’s dissatisfaction with the way the NNPP-led Government, controlled by Kwankwaso was mishandling the exercise.
According to the APC, the new distribution Committee, has already fashioned some templates to ensure that the palliatives get to their targets evenly irrespective of political party affiliations
He noted that before now, several palliatives measures approved for the vulnerable in Kano were mindlessly diverted by some officials of the NNPP-led Kano State Government.
The Kano APC Chairman admonished Kwankwaso to, instead, of condemning the decision of President Tinubu to re-route the palliatives, investigate allegations of diversions leveled against the adminstration of his chosen Governor.
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