States suffer when deputy governors are disloyal to their principals, says GovUmarGanduje | TheCable
Ebunoluwa OlafusiAbdullahi Ganduje, governor of Kano, says deputy governors in Nigeria must ensure loyalty to their principals.
“The history of relationships between some governors and their deputies in Nigeria since the the first republic has been that of disloyalty, envy, betrayal, and mistrust,” Ganduje said.“This should be considered as a matter of national importance, because the resentful relationship is unfavourable to democracy, national peace, stability and development, because when governors clash with their deputies, the state suffers.
“The book tells numerous experiences relating to principal and deputy relations in the Nigerian political system, reflecting the successful and evil times, the optimistic and the destructive relationships and their consequences for development, particularly on provision of dividends of democracy.”