Mr Kwankwaso said he was repaying all the debts he accumulated at the time he was leaving as Kano State Governor in 2015.
This claim is False, here are the reasons
According to publicly accessible Debt Management Office records, in 2011 when Mr Kwankwaso returned as Kano governor, the state’s debt stock amounted to $59,777,994 (external) and N5.8 billion (domestic). He left office on May 29 2015 and in the DMO record as of 30th June 2015, Kano’s external debt stock was $59,796,931.
For domestic debt stock, the record as of 31 December 2014, five months before Mr Kwankwaso left office, says Kano was owing N31,423,625,015 and as of 31 December 2015 after he left office 65,007,329,454.
Conclusion
The Official Records, therefore, show that Mr Kwankwaso left debts as he exited the office. Two days after he left office on 31 May 2015, his successor and then ally, Abdullahi Ganduje confirmed Mr Kwankwaso left the state in debt. So the claim is FALSE.
