The Kano State governor, Abdullahi Umar Ganduje, has fired his Works and Infrastructure Commissioner, Engr. Mu’azu Magaji with immediate effect. In th
The Kano State governor, Abdullahi Umar Ganduje, has fired his Works and Infrastructure Commissioner, Engr. Mu’azu Magaji with immediate effect. In the wake of the death of Abba Kyari, the Chief of Staff to President Muhammadu Buhari, who passed away from COVID-19, the Commissioner took his social media to make some indiscreet comments about the late CoS. He was generally celebrating his death and made no pretense about it.
Magaji said that Kyari was no ordinary citizen who amassed so much wealth that he could decide the fate of Nigeria and its people even though Nigeria is bigger than any individual. As such it is necessary to prevent a repeat of Kyari’s non accountable domineering era. Continuing, he also said that while there is a world of difference between a good person and a good leader, he prays that Allah won’t return Abba Kyari as Chief of Staff because President Buhari deserves to be his own man.
Irked by this, Bashir Ahmed, Buhari’s Personal Assistant on New Media, had reached out to the Kano State governor, asking him to call his commissioner to order.
Magaji has now been relieved of his appointment attributing it to his unguarded utterances against Malam Kyari. In a statement via the state’s commissioner of information, Malam Muhammad Garba, the state governor said that as a commissioner, Magaji ought to have respected his office as a public office holder and refrained from any act capable of rendering the office to disrepute adding that his actions personal or otherwise reflects back on the government.
Ganduje said his administration would not tolerate people in official capacities engaging in personal vendetta and therefore felt the right thing to do was to relieve him of his duty.
