{"id":415743,"date":"2021-11-17T19:53:37","date_gmt":"2021-11-17T18:53:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=415743"},"modified":"2021-11-17T19:54:55","modified_gmt":"2021-11-17T18:54:55","slug":"ruling-party-apc-senator-mocks-kano-governor-ganduje-over-dollar-bribery-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=415743","title":{"rendered":"Ruling Party, APC Senator Mocks Kano Governor, Ganduje Over \u2018Dollar Bribery\u2019 Video"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>The senator representing Kano Central, Ibrahim Shekarau, has mocked Governor Abdullahi Ganduje over some controversial videos which showed the governor stuffing dollars in his pocket.<br \/>\nA series of the secretly recorded videos in 2018 had shown Ganduje pocketing wads of dollars allegedly taken as kickbacks.<br \/>\n<span class=\"container container-pod container-pod-short\"><span class=\"adunit-parent hide block-module block-module-ad block-module-ad-300x250\"><span class=\"block-module-image-wrapper\"><\/span><\/span><\/span><br \/>\n<span class=\"ds-1col file file-image file-image-jpeg view-mode-embedded centered clearfix block-story-object block-story-object-resource block-story-object-resource-image\"><br \/>\n<span class=\"block-story-object-asset\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"media-element file-embedded\" typeof=\"foaf:Image\" src=\"http:\/\/arewa.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/Ruling-Party-APC-Senator-Mocks-Kano-Governor-Ganduje-Over-\u2018Dollar.jpeg\" alt=\"\"><\/span><br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p>The video published by Daily Nigerian, an online newspaper, showed the governor receiving bundles of dollars and putting them into his white dress known as \u2018babanriga\u2019 in the Northern part of Nigeria.<br \/>\nAccording to the newspaper, the governor had requested for $5 million from the contractors who recorded the video while handing part of the payment to him.<br \/>\nSince the video surfaced online, it has generated a lot of reactions from Nigerians, with some saying it is a dent on President Muhammadu Buhari\u2019s corruption agenda since the governor is a member of the ruling party.<br \/>\nWhile addressing his supporters at his residence in Kano, Shekarau, a former governor of the state, alluded to Ganduje as \u201cking of stuffing.\u201d<br \/>\nAmid the crisis rocking the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Kano, Ganduje had accused Shekarau and Senator Barau Jibrin of \u201ccollecting money in Abuja\u201d without doing anything for their people.<br \/>\nGanduje had said, \u201cYou have failed to deliver good projects to your constituents and when you start facing problems, you then blame for your travails?<br \/>\n\u201cThe money you are collecting in Abuja has not come down to your constituents, and then you\u2019re blaming me? You\u2019re taking me as scapegoat to your problems?\u201d<br \/>\nHowever, while addressing his supporters, Shekarau told a popular radio contributor, Alhajiji Nagoda, to tell Kano people who was the master of \u201cstuffing dollars in his pocket\u201d.<br \/>\n\u201cAlhajiji claims to be the leader of collecting, but I\u2019m now calling on him to tell the people of Kano who is the king of stuffing (dollars)?\u201d Shekarau said, to the applause of the crowd.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The senator representing Kano Central, Ibrahim Shekarau, has mocked Governor Abdullahi Ganduje over some controversial videos which showed the governor stuffing dollars in his pocket. A series of the secretly recorded videos in 2018 had shown Ganduje pocketing wads of dollars allegedly taken as kickbacks. 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