The Peoples Democratic Party
(PDP) in Kano State has threatened to take legal action against the state
government for allegedly using the police to stop its planned rally in Gaya on
Saturday, March 24.
The party chairman, Alhaji Mas’ud
El-Jibril Doguwa made this known while addressing newsmen in Kano on Friday.
He said during the rally, the
party planned to receive the gubernatorial candidate of Democratic Peoples
Movement (PDM), Engr Bashir Ishaq and his supporters into the PDP.
The party chairman said tgat as a
matter of official courtesy and to ensure adequate security coverage, the party
wrote to inform all relevant security agencies including the Nigeria Police and
the DSS weeks ago.
He explained that all the
security agencies assured the party of their cooperation which gave them the
courage to go ahead with their preparations.
“The police only yesterday
(Thursday) communicated to us another decision adivising that we shelve our
planned rally over what they maliciously called “security challenges”.
He alleged that it was the state
government that planned and decided to give the party what he described as
‘Kwankwassiyya treatment.’
He said the 1999 constitution as
amended in sections 40 and 41 (1) and (2) A has guaranteed every Nigerian
freedom of assembly and association with other persons including belonging to
any political party.
He said the constitution did not
require the party to ask for permission, pointing out that the party had done
the needful.
“It is only fair if a registered
political party is allowed to exercise its constitutionally guaranteed
fundamental human rights to assemble in Gaya tomorrow,” he said.
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