{"id":73056,"date":"2025-08-13T18:06:00","date_gmt":"2025-08-13T18:06:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=73056"},"modified":"2025-08-13T18:06:00","modified_gmt":"2025-08-13T18:06:00","slug":"nasarawa-accountant-general-denies-2027-guber-ambition-amid-resignation-calls","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2025\/08\/13\/nasarawa-accountant-general-denies-2027-guber-ambition-amid-resignation-calls\/","title":{"rendered":"Nasarawa Accountant General Denies 2027 Guber Ambition Amid Resignation Calls"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>By Anifowoshe Oladipupo<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Nasarawa State\u2019s Accountant General, Musa Ahmed Mohammed, has denied claims that he is involved in early political campaigns for the 2027 governorship election.<\/p>\n<p>His statement follows calls for his resignation by the Nasarawa State Transparency, Accountability and Good Governance Group, which cited alleged political activities.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking to journalists in Lafia, Mohammed said he has not declared any intention to run for governor.<\/p>\n<p>He reaffirmed his commitment to his current role under Governor Abdullahi Sule, stressing his focus on stabilizing the state\u2019s finances.<\/p>\n<p>While acknowledging his right as a citizen to seek elective office, he urged supporters to \u201cwait until the time is right\u201d and allow him to concentrate on official duties.<\/p>\n<p>The civil society group, represented by spokesperson Lazarus Salaki, expressed concern over a \u201cclear conflict of interest,\u201d citing an April 2024 directive requiring political appointees with electoral ambitions to resign or await the official ban\u2019s lifting.<\/p>\n<p>Salaki emphasized that the Accountant General\u2019s office demands neutrality and professionalism.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; By Anifowoshe Oladipupo Nasarawa State\u2019s Accountant General, Musa Ahmed Mohammed, has denied claims that he is involved in early political campaigns for the 2027 governorship election. His statement follows calls for his resignation by the Nasarawa State Transparency, Accountability and Good Governance Group, which cited alleged political activities. Speaking to journalists in Lafia, Mohammed [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":32,"featured_media":73057,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[172],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-73056","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73056","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/32"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=73056"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73056\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":73058,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73056\/revisions\/73058"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/73057"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=73056"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=73056"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=73056"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}