Ahead of the Saturday’s supplementary election in Kano State, the state governor, Abdullahi Ganduje has embarked on emergency projects including road rehabilitation, construction of boreholes and drainages as well as refuse collection in Gama ward of the Nasarawa Local Government Area of the state ostensibly to woo voters.
The election in Gama ward was cancelled following a crisis at the Nasarawa Local Government Area collation centre.
One of our correspondents, who visited the Gama ward on Sunday, noticed that the laying of asphalt on the main access road into the community was nearing completion.
A resident of the ward, Mallam Abdullahi Gama ,who operates a commercial tricycle, said, “I was going home on Friday when I saw some of these projects especially the road.
“The number of projects we have seen in this area within the last three days is more than what we have seen in three years. Even though it is Ganduje’s government that is doing this road, some Kwankwasiyya people have named the road ‘Abba Yusuf road.”
It was learnt that the projects being embarked upon were being funded from the state and local governments joint account where N223.5m was withdrawn from last week.
In his reaction, the PDP governorship candidate in Kano, Kabir Yusuf, described the government’s action as laughable.
According to a statement by Yusuf’s spokesman, Sanusi Tofa, the ongoing road construction work at Gama ward was an act of deception.
