A chieftain of the All Progressive Congress (APC) in Kano,
Dr. Ilyasu Musa Kwankwaso has urged the state Governor, Engr. Abba Kabir Yusuf,
to wait for Supreme Court judgement on his appeal against the verdict of the
court of appeal which sacked him from office, instead of wasting taxpayers’
money organizing protests.
Ilyasu, cousin to the National Leader and Presidential
Candidate of the New Nigeria People’s Party (NNPP), Senator Rabi’u Musa
Kwankwaso made the appeal while accusing the NNPP government in the state of
using government funds to sponsor sympathy protests over the Kano governorship
tussle.
He advised Governor Yusuf and the NNPP to rather wait for
the Supreme Court verdict.
Addressing journalists at Kano Press Centre on Thursday,
Kwankwaso who also served as Commissioner for Rural Development under former
Governor Ibrahim Shekarau said with the unfolding events in Kano, following the
affirmation of the Governorship Election Petition Tribunal Judgement sacking
Governor Yusuf by the Appeal Court in Abuja, “it has become pertinent to draw
public attention towards some important issues.”
He recalled that the APC was declared winner of the March
18th 2023 Governorship Election by the Elections Petitions Tribunal and its
gubernatorial candidate, Dr Nasiru Yusuf Gawuna announced as the duly elected
Governor of Kano state.
Kwankwaso further stated that the same judgement was
reaffirmed by the Appeal Court in addition to the judgement declaring Governor
Yusuf as not being a member of the NNPP when he contested for Governorship of
the state.
He added that: “These judgements were passed in accordance
with the constitutional provisions and Electoral Act as amended.
“Not happy with the judgement, the NNPP and the Kwankwasiyya
Movement have engaged in massive propaganda, thereby insulting the judiciary
and trying to instigate political violence in Kano.
“They have spread false claims that Kano state is facing
serious tension by funding patches of protests and rallies across the
metropolis.
“This is in violation of the Peace Accord that was signed at
the Police Command recently part of which has banned such public assemblies.”
According to him, “The peace and tranquillity enjoyed in
Kano, with everyone going about their daily business, is a testament that it is
not true that there is any tension in the state. It is the sponsored protests
that are used to falsely create a picture of crises in the state.
“In the meantime, the NNPP is wasting Kano’s meagre
resources, chasing shadows by taking political issues that are rooted in the
Nigerian Laws to ECOWAS, EU, US and other places instead of waiting for the
decision of the Supreme Court of the land.
“The worst part of this is that the NNPP is not allowing the
teeming masses to rest again, after demolishing their billions of Naira worth
of property illegally, they are now sponsoring innocent youths to cause tension
and chaos in the state
“The Kano people cannot be cajoled using sponsored protests
because they believe that it is Allah that gives power to whom He wishes and
takes it from whom He wishes, and if He takes it from Abba Kabir Yusuf and
gives it to Nasiru Yusu Gawuna, so be it.
” These protests are stage-managed and deliberately intended
to create tension in the state and make it look like all is not well.
“The people of Kano are with APC and with Gawuna and
Ganduje. We won the election and the court detected the invalid votes they
mischievously placed during the polls and cancelled them and our was returned
to us.
“All the protests they are staging are fake and with the
deliberate intention of heating the polity and creating undue tension where
there is none.
“Everyone is going about his daily business except those
paid crowds trying to create tension. After all, who will come out to protest
because the court has sacked Abba, after demolishing their property?
“This is just a sign that the end has come for them, that is
why they are all over the place trying to create unnecessary tension.
“I would like to use this forum to extend our gratitude to
the people of Kano state for their support and patience. I call on all and
sundry to be calm and law-abiding as we await the judgement of the Supreme
Court which we believe Insha Allah will be in our favour.”
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