YARI, DEP ‘FIGHT OVER N50M’

A political crisis has erupted between Governor Abdul-Aziz Yari of Zamfara state and his deputy, Malam Ibrahim Wakala, over an alleged misappropriation of the sum of over N50 million.
Sources close to the Zamfara Government House said that the money in question allegedly disappeared when Yari went on a holiday and his deputy acted as the governor.

According to the source, when the governor returned the state, he discovered that the said amount was missing, a situation that made him to query his deputy.

The source further revealed that when Wakala failed to defend himself on the allegation, the governor vowed never to allow him to act as governor again until he returned the allegedly embezzled money.

This development, added the source, forced the political mentor of the two fighting giants, Sen. Ahmed Sani, to intervene, promising to personally refund the money on behalf of the deputy governor to the state’s treasury.
However, in spite of Sani’s intervention, our source said, the governor lived up to his promise of never handing the affairs of the state to his deputy whenever he was away.

Instead, he chose to hand over the governance of the state to the Speaker of the state House of Assembly, Alhaji Sanusi Garba Rikiji, during his subsequent travels.
Commenting on the issue, the press secretary to the deputy governor, Malam Yusuf Idris, dismissed the allegation made against his principal as baseless.

Source: Blueprint