Kwara State Commissioner for Special Duties, Hajia Aishat Ahman-Pategi, on Friday, resigned her appointment from the cabinet of Governor Abdulrahman Abdulrazaq.
The resignation letter was tendered on Friday.
It was gathered that the resignation was not unconnected with the alleged N300 million monthly deduction from the allocation fund of the 16 local government councils from the federation account raised a few months ago.
Ahman-Pategi was alleged to have confronted her colleague in the finance ministry, Mrs Florence Oyeyemi, of alleged diversion of N300 million council funds monthly without her knowledge.
Governor Abdulrazaq had set up a commission of inquiry headed by Retired Justice Mathew Adewara to look into the alleged diversion of the N300m local government councils funds as well as asking the Ilorin zonal office of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission to commence an investigation into the alleged fraud in the local government funds.
Ahman-Pategi was moved from her former Ministry of Local Government and Chieftaincy Affairs to Special Duties in a minor Cabinet reshuffle in May.
