Mr Ganduje, who is currently facing probe at the Kano State House of Assembly, received the award on Sunday at the 10th LEAD Innovation Festival at Lagos Oriental Hotel, Victoria Island, Lagos.
In his remark at the ceremony, Mr Ganduje thanked the group for honoring him with the award, his administration had recorded achievements in education, healthcare, infrastructure, among others.
He said, "In the last three years, we managed to make significant strides towards implementing our development agenda to ensuring that Kano people enjoy the dividends of change. Not only that, development programmes are evenly spread across the state in terms of infrastructure development in the areas of road construction/rehabilitation, education, health, water supply, environmental protection, agriculture, economy etc.”
“The choice of this year’s festival theme: ‘Exploring Great Innovations building Institutions in Africa’ is a clear testimony of the organizers’ vision to gingering all stakeholders in innovation towards achieving the goal of recognizing and encouraging innovators and entrepreneurs in different sectors of the African economy,” he added.
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ReplyDeleteThis man's ugliness IS on another level. He doesn't look like a human
DeleteNa sleeping governor😁😁😁😁
DeleteMany awards organisations are just shame, for the fact his on probe all award should pause until end of investigation.
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Can u imagine this nonsense
ReplyDeleteThis is Nigeria
ReplyDeleteJust shows u the kind of irredeemable mess we are in as a nation
ReplyDeleteThis is Nigeria! The awarders clearly want their share of the National cake. "No be only this baba go chop the money alone,they say."
ReplyDeleteIf it was a country where the law works, this morally bankrupt governor
would have resigned, but NO this is Nigeria where anything and everything goes. The awarders must be out of their mind. Nonsense!
Hehehe 😀😁😀
ReplyDeleteNo one resigns in a lawless country" we die there " that's their slogan even when they know they have failed woefully.
ReplyDelete"Ganduje who was caught on tape receiving bribe in hard currency from contractors", This statement is wrong, it's still allegedly and not certain if he Is the one in the video. All these yeye news writers writing nonsence to promote their site.
ReplyDeleteGanduje still remains one of the best governors of this admin
LeadersNG last week launched an independent investigation into the allegations made by an online blogger about the Kano State governor,Abdullahi Umar Ganduje and we can report that there are new developments surrounding the situation in Kano. Our investigations reveal that the governor collects a 30% cut from all contractors handling various projects in the state. Government sources told us that the governor collects kickbacks for ongoing and completed projects alike.
DeleteYou will recall that an online blogger Mr. Jafar Jafar had alleged that the embattled governor collected $5million bribe from an unnamed contractor and later provided two separate video evidence after rebuttal by the state government. We can confirm that aside the allegation which was made in a widely-shared video clip on social media of bribe collection from a contractor by the governor, other contractors who spoke to LeadersNG said the governor collects 30% cut from all awarded contracts.
Three engineering companies that specialize in road constructions in the state confirmed that they all pay 30% cut in bribes to the governor. One of the CEO of the companies said it is a known fact among all contractors working in the state. He said for them to even get monies owed by the previous government, they had to also pay 30% of all money owed by the state government as bribe to the governor.
Another major contractor that does supplies in the state told our reporter that “The governor physically collects all the kickbacks from contractors and prefers it in dollars and as such everything you have heard is the truth. Even his Commissioners tell us Oga likes dollars.”
A source close to the governor told our reporter that the governor runs the state like a sole administrator and takes all decisions without consultation with relevant agencies and ministries. He said contracts that should be handled by various ministries are directly handled by the governor and he deals directly with the contractors. He further added that the commissioners and aides like him have no money or access to state funds.
A member of the State House of Assembly who also spoke to us on condition of anonymity said “everyone in government here knows the governor collects bribes on all contracts. We know all the contractors. Many of them are our friends and they tell us their dealings with the governor. Nothing is secret about all these things. Ganduje is too greedy. The reason why he has ran into trouble is because he does not trust anyone. You can imagine a governor collecting bribe by himself. He doesn’t trust anyone around him to collect the bribes for him. That’s why his face is all over the Internet.”
The governor, 69, had said he was not moved by the revelation of him collecting bribe saying medical personnel at Shiekh Jidda General Hospital in Kano city, certified that his blood pressure was within normal range. Even in the face of glaring evidence, Ganduje described the revelation as ineffective blackmail.
Although he had threatened legal actions against Mr. Jafar, this did not stop him from releasing a second video clip in which the governor was seen collecting bundles of dollars from anonymous persons.
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But u guys accepted that dollars were shared in PDP presidential primaries without any evidence.
It's funny that u condemn one evil and defend the other.
The man has been quite since the video was released. Let's see how the probe goes. The state assembly is not dominated by APC so maybe we may hear something different this time around
ReplyDeleteThis recent award is simply, to deflect and detract attention about Ganduje's corruption probe. It would be really comical if it wasn't a real unfolding situation. If Ganduje gets away with this: to pee on peoples legs, then turn around and say, it's raining outside, then sorry is the present and future of both the Nigerian state and Nigerians. OYO
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