Dollar bribe: Ganduje, wife, son, five others to be arraigned April 17

Dollar bribe: Ganduje, wife, son, five others to be arraigned April 17

National Chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Abdullahi Ganduje will be arraigned before a Kano High Court on April 17 for criminal charges.

He alongside his wife, Hafsat Ganduje, their son, Umar Abdullahi Umar and five others are to be arraigned on eight-count charges bordering on dollar bribery allegation, misappropriation and diversion of public funds running into billions.

The other defendants in the case are Abubakar Bawuro, Jibrilla Muhammad, Lamash Properties Limited, Safari Textiles Limited, and Lesaga General Enterprises.

In a charge sheet, the state government said the offence contravened Kano State Public Complaints and Anti-Commission Commission Law 2008.

In 2018, Daily Nigerian, an online newspaper, published a video of Ganduje allegedly receiving bundles of dollars from contractors, which he stuffed into his “babanriga”, a traditional outfit.

The APC national chairman was the governor of Kano from 2015 to 2023.

The newspaper said Ganduje requested $5 million as a bribe from the contractors who recorded the video.

In 2023, the Kano State Public Complaints and Anti-Corruption Commission (PCACC) invited Ganduje for questioning.

But he did not honour the invitation and instead instituted a suit against the agency.

A federal high court in Kano later stopped the agency from inviting Ganduje over the bribery allegations.