'It's a win-win' - Top government official celebrates Taliban's takeover of Afghanistan

The Chairman of the Kano State Gas Pipeline Project Delivery and Gas Industrialisation Committee, Muaz Magaji said "it's a win-win" after Afghanistan's Presidential Palace was taken over by the Taliban.

Mr. Magaji who has grown to be controversial for his extremist stand on issues was dismissed for celebrating the death of the late Chief of Staff to the President, Abba Kyari. He was later reappointed.

In a Facebook post, he wrote: "It's a WIN-WIN in Afghanistan today!"

He becomes the second high-ranking official who have openly declared their support and endorsed a ​terrorist group.

​The first, according to SaharaReporters was Isa Pantami, the Minister of communications and Digital Economy.

Taliban fighters entered the city of Kabul on Sunday, hijacked power, forcing President Mohammad Ashraf Ghani to flee the country.

Meanwhile, the Taliban has renamed Afghanistan the ‘Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan’ after its fighters swept into the capital, Kabul, a bustling metropolis of six million that has turned into a male-dominated city without police or traffic controls.

Aljazeera reports that scores of Afghans ran alongside a US military plane as it taxied on the runway and several clung to the side as the jet took off with Senior US military officials confirming to Aljazeera that the chaos left seven dead, as well as several who fell from the flight.