Abdullahi Umar Ganduje, a Nigerian politician who served as the governor of Kano State from 2015 to 2023, has said that the lies of alleged corruption about him are peddled by the NNPP and the current Governor of Kano State, Abba Kabir Yusuf, to destroy their party, the APC. According to Ganduje, the NNPP is concerned that people have seen the destruction allegedly caused in the state during its first year in office.
In Ganduje's words in the report by Vanguard News, "When we first heard the news, we knew it was not true. But we had to exercise patience to affirm those behind it. After a formal investigation, it was found that those who met with officials of the Kano State government were not executive members, either at the ward, state, or even members of our party. These lies are peddled by the NNPP and the governor of Kano State to destroy our party because they are so concerned that during their first year in office, the people have seen the destruction of the economy of Kano down to the increase in political violence and also the destruction of political morality."