N627bn revenue: Kebbi govt, Malami camp lock horns over alleged financial mismanagement

Ahead of the 2027 wide elections, the absorption of Kebbi State’s finances has emerged arsenic a large governmental issue, with the African Democratic Congress, ADC, demanding an relationship of funds it said accrued to the authorities betwixt May 2023 and October 2025.

The quality centres connected N627.14 billion, which the Kebbi ADC says the authorities received during the period, and is challenging the authorities to relationship for done elaborate records of revenue, expenditure and projects delivered.

The authorities authorities has rejected the allegation of fiscal mismanagement, arguing that projected gross successful authorities budgets should not beryllium confused with wealth really received into the state’s coffers.

The contention has since widened into a governmental speech involving the Kebbi ADC, the authorities authorities and the All Progressives Congress, APC, with the ruling enactment besides questioning the fiscal grounds of erstwhile Attorney-General of the Federation and Minister of Justice, Abubakar Malami, who is backing the ADC up of the 2027 election.

Bello Abdullahi, Director of Strategic Communications of the ADC Kebbi State Campaign Council, said the party’s N627.14 cardinal fig was compiled from information attributed to the Office of the Accountant-General of the Federation, the National Bureau of Statistics, NEITI and the World Bank.

“Our N627.14 cardinal fig is not an allegation. It is compiled from the Office of the Accountant-General of the Federation, the National Bureau of Statistics, NEITI and the World Bank, covering May 2023 to October 2025,” Abdullahi said.

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