Governor Abdullahi Ganduje of Kano State has threatened to sue Daily Nigerian over a video allegedly showing him collecting a bribe of $5 million from a contractors.
Daily Nigerian is an online news medium.
Ganduje denied receiving bribe and described the video as cloned.
The threat and denial are contained in a statement issued by Kano State Commissioner for Information, Muhammad Garba.
His words: “We wish to state that there is no iota of truth to these allegations and if there is any such alleged video, it is at best cloned.
“The government of Kano State is taking this matter seriously and will exploit every appropriate and legal avenue to ensure that it gets to the root of the matter and the perpetrators brought to book.”
Meanwhile, the publisher of the news medium, Jaafar Jaafar, who has since gone into hiding alleging threat to his life, insisted that the claims in the video were true.
He said the video was the product of a ten months efforts.
According to him, the governor’s face and body were clearly captured in nine clips.
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“About $5 million dollars were delivered to the governor during the sting operation. One of the contractors, who preferred not to be named, said the reason he collaborated with Daily Nigerian was to expose corruption and bring sanity to the country.
“The contractor stated that if his aim was to blackmail or extort the governor, he would have used the videos to get over a billion settlement or force the governor to pay the hundreds of millions of naira the state was owing to his company or force him to pay back all the money he paid as kickbacks.
“We believe if public office holders are exposed, there will be sanity in the system,” he added.
