Kwankwaso, Shekarau crisis deepens over $1m bribe; ex-APC stalwart says he lives in rented apartment

Kano Senator Ibrahim Shekarau has dismissed reports saying he got $1 million to dump his new party NNPP where he alleged betrayal by his ally and presidential candidate Rabiu Kwankwaso

Kwankwaso has equally made allegations against the former APC senator whom other presidential candidates have been persuading to return

But he told his Shura council on Tuesday how honest he has been all his life.

“Till date, I am not saying this for someone to hear. I still live in a rented house in Abuja. I pray God brings the money that I will build mine,” he said.

“In my 42 years of being a leader, I was a principal of GSS Hadejia with 500 students and 64 teachers. This hand have 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.

“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.”

He added that while a plot of land is unarguably precious in Kano, he did not allocate one feet of land to himself in his eight years as 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.”