Kano residents protest, despite police ban on street protest
A coalition of Civil Society organisations, Northwest Civil Societies, and the Anti-Corruption Network are protesting in Kano State in the wake of an allegation of bribery raised by a tribunal judge’
Demonstrators matched to the state government house in there hundreds despite a police ban on all forms of protest.
The Commissioner of Police in the state, Husaini Gumel, imposed a ban on Monday, saying, intelligence reports revealed that both the New Nigeria Peoples Party (NNPP) and the All Progressives Congress (APC) are mobilising for street protests against a tribunal sitting.
“Both the APC and the NNPP members are currently mobilising a rented crowd in the guise of the Civil Society Coalition without clearance from the leadership of the Nigeria Labour Congress and without prior approval from the security agencies in the state”, he said.
He said investigations show that some members of both political parties are influencing the CSOs with the intent of pre-empting the judgement of the election Tribunal.
APC is challenging the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) for declaring Yusuf of NNPP the winner of the March 18 governorship election in the state.
Allegation of tampering
A judges in the election petition tribunal in Kano, Flora Ngozi Azinge had recently alleged that a Senior Advocate of Nigeria, SAN, was offering her a bribe in order to skew the verdict of the tribunal.
The organiser of the protest, Ibrahim Waiya, threatened that, “it will not augur well wth the state and the nation as a whole” if the tribunal was manipulated.
In response, Governor Abba Kabir Yusuf of Kano State commended the Civil Society for a peaceful protest and gave the assurance that he would personally relay their message to President Tinubu.
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