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From Desmond Mgboh, Kano
A chieftain of the All Progressives Congress and former Commissioner for Rural and Community Development. Illyasu Kwankwaso has accused the NNPP government in Kano State of trying hard to instigate political violence in the state.
Kwankwaso who spoke at a press conference in the state on Thursday alleged that the government was funding patches of protests and rallies across the metropolis so as to build a basis for their false claim of tension in the state.
“This is in violation of the Peace Accord that was signed at the Police Command recently part of which has banned such public assemblies” he regretted. .
“I wish to state in clear terms that the peace and tranquility enjoyed in Kano, with everyone going about his daily business is a testament that it is not true that there is any tension in the state” he affirmed.
” It is the sponsored protests that are used to falsely create a picture of crisis in the state” he asserted.
All these protests are stage managed and are simply designed to heat up the polity and create tension where thee is none.
He stressed that the NNPP government has been wasting Kano’ s meager resources chasing shadows by taking political issues of the country that are rooted in the Nigerian Laws to ECOWAS, EU, US and other places
He enjoined them to desist from insulting the judiciary urging them to wait for the decision of the Supreme Court of the land.
“The people of Kano are with APC and with Gawuna and Ganduje. We won election and the court detected the invalid votes they mischievously placed during the polls and cancelled them and our was returned to us.
