Katsina State Governor, Aminu Bello Masari, has ordered the immediate sack of the Commissioner for Works and Housing, Tasi’u Dahiru Dandagoro, the Permanent Secretary, Sustainable Development, Fatima Ahmed, and her counterpart at the Ministry of Agriculture and Natural Resources, Aminu Waziri.
In a statement signed by the Secretary to the State Government (SSG), Muntari Lawal, Masari also terminsted the appointments of the Chairman of Katsina State Pilgrims Welfare Board, Yusuf Barmo.
A competent Government House source said the governor’s action might not be unconnected with the defeat of the All Progressives Congress (APC) presidential candidate, Asiwaju Ahmed Tinubu, in Katsina.
Tinubu who polled 482,283 votes, lost to the PDP candidate, Atiku Abubakar, who received 489,045 votes from across the 34 local government areas.
“There is no doubt that government reviewed and is still reviewing roles of various persons that culminated in the party’s defeat in the state,” a source said.
But the SSG in his statement said the dismissal of the officers was done “in the move to make some strategic re-alignments.
Additional report from The Sun
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