Kano State government said on Friday in Kano that the ongoing investigation by the state’s Public Complaints and Anti-Corruption Commission over alleged sale of landed properties belonging to the Kano Emirate has nothing to do with Governor Abdullahi Umar Ganduje.

Reacting to a front page lead story of the Daily Trust newspaper of Friday, January 31, 2020 captioned: “Ganduje renews feud with Sanusi”, the state commissioner for information, Malam Muhammad Garba says the commission is backed by the relevant laws to carry out such investigations.

He pointed out that as it did occur in the past, where it even involved senior civil servants and political office holders, Governor Ganduje does not interfere with the activities of the commission and only learnt about the probe when it got to the press.

Garba expressed dismay over the story in which the paper attempted to depict a renewed feud between Governor Ganduje and the Emir of Kano, Muhammad Sanusi II and maintained that the caption of the story is disproportionately at disparity with the body of the news item.

The commissioner said Ganduje has no grudges against the monarch, and even the issue of the creation of new emirates in the state, which appears to be at the centre of the issue, followed due process.

He therefore urged the media to guard against wiping up sentiments through publishing or airing of sensational stories for the sake wooing readers or listeners.