APC stakeholders in Kano seek security protection over planned attacks by NNPP 

APC stakeholders in Kano seek security protection over planned attacks by NNPP

By David Lawani, Abuja

The All Progressives Congress, APC, Kano Stakeholders have appealed to police and other security agencies to come to their rescue over planned attacks and unleashing of violence on members of the party by New Nigeria People’s Party, PDP, saying they have it on good authority that APC members are target of these attacks.

While briefing newsmen at the National Secretariat of the party in Abuja, the Director General of Gawuna/ Garo Campaign Organisation, Alahji Rabiu Suleiman Bichi, said Kano was peaceful throughout the eight-year administration of the All Progressives Congress (APC) as evidenced in the increased number of governmental, non-governmental Organisations and corporate bodies rushing to Kano to hold their conferences, seminars, symposia and Annual General Meetings and importantly inflow of Foreign Direct Investments (FDIs.

He noted that since the conduct of the 2023 governorship election and the declaration of the New Nigeria People’s Party (NNPP) as the winner, the ruling APC as peace-loving party, remained calm and shunned any form of violence.

The campaign DG stated further that the people of Kano have been living in perpetual fear of intimidation and threat to life and property, since the assumption of office, starting with the orgy of violence by elements of the NNPP, targeted at the All Progressives Congress (APC).

He explained that apart from public property, the state headquarters of the party and properties of some leading figures of the APC were torched, all in the name of celebration.

He stated: ” Things appear to be getting worse since the embattled leader of the NNPP Senator Rabi’u Musa Kwankwaso came back to Kano on Sunday, where he held a meeting of the party’s stakeholders, at the end of which they come up with line up of activities that included unleashing of violence to not only eliminate the APC in Kano but also to make it ungovernable in the event of Supreme Court judgement in favour of the APC.

The group explained that what APC did was following the eight steps of filing its case at the state Governorship Election Petition Tribunal that sat in Kano.

He said: ” After filing its case at the state Governorship Election Petition Tribunal that sat in Kano, the APC patiently pursued it for months up to the pronouncement of the stage where the three-man panel of judges fixed the date for the judgement.

” However, sensing defeat, the NNPP resorted to threatening to kill the judges of the tribunal should the verdict of the court eventually be announced and not in their favour. The threats by the NNPP government’s cabinet members included among others, the Secretary to the Kano State Government, Baffa Bichi, forced the tribunal to deliver its judgement via Zoom for fear of their lives.

” The NNPP government then resorted to sponsored street protests, including embarrassingly the one held in London on which millions of naira were said to have been spent. The aim of the protests to further instil fear in the mind of the people failed, as only a few attended”, he noted.

He reiterated that the APC as a party has always been promoting the cause of democracy and the rule of law, rejected the outcome of the election and sought to reclaim its mandate through the appropriate channel as laid down in the Electoral Act and the Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria.