NNPP protesters storm FCT over A’Court verdict sacking Kano gov
The New Nigeria Peoples Party (NNPP), yesterday, stormed the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), to protest against the Court of Appeal verdict that removed Governor Abba Yusuf of Kano State.
The protesters marched from NNPP office to ECOWAS Secretariat Asokoro, United Nations office and some embassies to draw attention of Nigerians and the international community to the Kano governorship matter.
Addressing journalists before the protest, Acting National Chairman, NNPP, Abba Ali, said everybody in and outside Kano knew that the people of Kano freely voted for the NNPP governorship candidate and that he won the election fair and square.
He said specific letters had been dispatched to all the aforementioned, adding that what the party was just asking for justice to be done and the mandate given by Kano people, out of their own free will, to Yusuf be restored.
According to him, the NNPP won the Kano governorship seat in the 2023 general election and two senatorial seats, 19 House of Representatives seats and 30 House of Assembly seats across the country within a short period of the collaboration.
“The NNPP has proceeded to the Supreme Court to seek redress. We are concerned with the peace and stability of Kano in particular and Northern Nigeria, in general. We, therefore, urge the Supreme Court to embrace substantial justice by restoring the mandate of the people of Kano and Yusuf.
“As we head towards this next level of adjudication, which, of course, is the final, there is palpable tension in Kano. The city’s atmosphere is enveloped in anger, with a sense of shock and agony pervading every discussion on the streets, offices and homes. To say that there is a combustible mix of provocation and betrayal welling up in the minds of the citizens of Kano is an understatement.”
The people are bitter, enraged, exasperated and fuming with fury. The security situation today in Kano has become unpredictable,” Ali said.
Claiming that the Certified True Copy (CTC) of the Court of Appeal judgment is at variance with the judgment read by the three-man Court of Appeal panel, he said the real judgment favoured NNPP.
He added: “As a party, we are not taking this development lightly and will do anything within the ambit of the law to take what the entire world knows is ours.”
