Niger: ‘I won’t probe ex-governor Bello, I have all their files’ – Bago

Niger State Governor Mohammed Umaru Bago has said helium volition not analyse his predecessor, erstwhile Governor Abubakar Sani Bello, contempt claiming to person documents detailing alleged misconduct during the erstwhile administration.

The politician said helium deliberately chose bid implicit governmental retaliation, insisting that though helium has grounds of alleged “shady activities and soiled deals”, helium would not beryllium drawn into a combat with his predecessor.

Speaking astatine the Emir’s Palace successful Kagara, Rafi Local Government Area, during a sympathy sojourn pursuing the communal clash that claimed much than 40 lives, Bago said: “I person each their files. I cognize precisely what they did during their clip successful office. Every shady enactment and soiled woody is documented.”

He added: “Some radical are pushing maine to combat the erstwhile governor, Abu Sani Bello, but I refuse. What I privation for Niger State is peace, thing but peace.”

Bago’s remarks travel amid governmental hostility successful the authorities pursuing the All Progressives Congress, APC, primaries, which triggered the defection of respective erstwhile governmental appointees from Bello’s administration, including ex-commissioners, erstwhile section authorities chairmen and councillors.

Recall on Thursday, erstwhile Chief of Staff to Bello, Maikil Al-Amin Bmitosahi, led members of the Niger Rescue Movement, NRM, into the African Democratic Congre...