Shekarau: I live in rented apartment, can’t acquire one in Abuja

Former Kano State Governor and Senator representing Kano Central senatorial district, Ibrahim Shekarau, has said he is yet to acquire a personal house in the Federal Capital Territory, Abuja.

Shekarau said he still lives in a rented apartment in the nation’s capital.

The former governor said this in reaction to an allegation that he was given $1 million dollars in a bid to push him out of the New Nigeria Peoples Party (NNPP) to another undisclosed party.

He made the statement while engaging his followers, the Shura council and committees on the brewing crisis in the NNPP.

Shekarau stated that in his over 40 years of public engagement, no amount of money can influence his decision.

The senator said: “In my 42 years of being a leader, I was a principal of GSS Hadejia with 500 students and 64 teachers. This hand has signed and approved whatever amount of money one can think of. My commissioners are all alive, I have never dictated in a council meeting who should be given contract.

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“We have handled uncountable contracts with both foreign and local contractors, I challenge any contractor to come out and say there was a time we negotiate on a particular contract.

“I challenge every political appointee or contractor who brought one naira to me. If it happens and he or she kept quiet, I will not forgive him.”

Shekarau added that he never allocated a plot of land to himself in his eight years regime as a governor.

“It is not that we don’t like the money, but our dignity is more important than wealth. Whoever knows any house outside the one built for me based on pension agreement, I have given it to him,” he said.

The former governor stated that he still maintains a good relationship with high-profile politicians within and outside the party, saying associating or visiting each other shouldn’t be an issue.

He said the recent comment credited to the NNPP presidential candidate, Rabiu Kwankwaso, necessitated him to brief his followers on the latest happening in the party and the rumoured defection.

The Star