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The Nigerian presidency has been caught showcasing projects executed
by the Kano State Government as part of the legacy projects executed by
the President Goodluck Jonathan’s administration in the North-West
geopolitical zone of the country.
The Special Adviser to the President on Media and Publicity, Reuben
Abati, had in a 10-part series of tweets on Sunday highlighted key
projects he said the Jonathan administration executed in the six
North-West states of Kano, Kaduna, Katsina, Sokoto, Kebbi and Zamfara.
Using the hashtags #DidYouKnow?#TransformationintheNorthWest#ForwardNigeria#UpJonathan#UpNigeria, Mr. Abati deployed images and graphics to illustrate what he called the President’s transformation of the North-West zone. Reuben Abati Vs. Kano State Government: The contentious tweet and images
The presidential spokesperson’s tweets appear to be part of the
ongoing massive publicity of President Jonathan’s legacy projects across
the country in a bid to shore up his reelection chances in the
forthcoming presidential election.
But Kano state officials are now accusing the presidency of fraud and
demanding apology, saying some of the projects exhibited by Mr. Abati
were actually executed by Governor Rabiu Kwankwaso.
Jaafar Jaafar, the Special Assistant on Media to Governor Kwankwaso,
was livid on the telephone as he complained to PREMIUM TIMES that Mr.
Abati, who he said speaks for a non-performing President, had coveted
his state government’s projects to federal projects in a deliberate ploy
to mislead the unwary public.
“This clearly shows the desperation of the Jonathan team for
reelection,” Mr. Jaafar said. “Why should they lie? Why should they
mislead the world?”
Specifically, the Kano governor spokesperson’s grouse with Mr. Abati
has to do with the two photographs he used in illustrating his sixth
tweet.
“Did you know? That President Jonathan’s administration has
established four new universities in the North West zone?” Mr Abati had
tweeted. He then used images of a multi-storey complex as well as that
of a computer laboratory to illustrate the message.
Mr. Jaafar said the multi-storey complex used in the tweet is a
10-storey building on the temporary campus of Kano-state owned
Northwestern University.
“That building was built entirely with funds belonging to Kano
people,” Mr. Jafaar told PREMIUM TIMES. “Abubakar Rimi started the
building during the Second Republic as headquarters for the Kano State
Investment and Property Company. When Ibrahim Shekarau came, he tried to
turn it to an ICT park and he changed the name to Ado Bayero House.
“When Governor Kwankwaso came, he spent hundreds of millions of naira
to complete and furnish it. It was then put to use as one of the
structures at the temporary site of Northwestern university.”
Mr. Jaafar also said the photograph of the computer lab published by
Mr. Abati was that of Kwankwaso Informatics Institute currently located
right inside the Kano State Library.
“The institute was built by Governor Kwankwaso and it has already
graduated many students. In fact, the government is trying to move it to
its permanent site in Kura local government.”
The Kano governor’s spokesperson added, “Our advice to the Federal
Government is that they should ensure that they achieve something, that
they execute projects that can be shown, not talking in abstraction when
they have done nothing for Kano and the North-West.
“But in the interim, we deserve apology from the Federal Government for taking credit for something they did not achieve.”
Contacted, Mr. Abati declined to comment for this story.
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