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  • I’m not meddling in Kano elections – Tinubu

    All Progressives Congress National Leader, Sen. Bola Tinubu, on Wednesday refuted rumours going round that he was in Kano and meddling in the state’s rescheduled elections.

    Tinubu in a statement said he had not been in Kano at any point during the conduct of the elections.

    A copy of the statement was made available to newsmen in Lagos by Tinubu’s Media Adviser, Mr Tunde Rahman.

    He said that the picture of himself and Gov. Abdullahi Ganduje of Kano that was circulating in the media was taken in 2018 when the governor visited Lagos.

    According to him, such rumours are harmful to the democracy Nigeria seeks to enshrine and goes against the progressive tradition that describes Kano’s politics.

    “These desperate politicians stir resentment of others as a way to get the support of the people.

    “They use lies and deception as their crutch, casting me as some type of one-man political invasion intending to unduly influence the governorship election.

    “For the record, I’m not in Kano and has not been in Kano at any point during the conduct of these elections.

    “The picture that these liars are circulating is one that was taken last year when the governor visited Lagos, “he said.

    Tinubu said that Kano had historically stood as a bastion of progressive politics.

    According to him, Its brand of politics helped inspire the establishment of the APC.

    “Regarding the people of Kano, I have nothing but the utmost respect and admiration.

    “Kano has an enlightened electorate that will vote as they believe. I hope that they will disregard the lies and rumors about me and remain faithful to their progressive tradition.

    “If the people do so, then they would have voted in their best interests and that is for the APC, the party of President Muhammadu Buhari, “he said.

    Tinubu said that he had been at the forefront of the struggle for electoral reforms, justice and equality over the years and would never do anything to desecrate those fine ideals.

    “I believe in a free and fair electoral process, a project to which I have devoted the majority of my adult life to achieve.

    “Let this election be decided on the relative merits of the competing candidates.

    “I’m a committed democrat and advocate of free and fair electoral processes. I will neither support nor work to promote anything that will undermine or weaken the electoral system, ” Tinubu said.

  • Abducted expatriate engineer found dead in Kano

    Abducted expatriate engineer found dead in Kano

    The body of the abducted expatriate Engineer on Tuesday in Kano have been found.

     

    The expatriate, an employee of Triacta Construction Company was working on the underpass bridge at Dangi roundabout by Zoo road before he was kidnapped on Tuesday morning around 7.00am.

     

    Kano Police Command Spokesman DSP Abdullahi Haruna noted that the corpse of the lebanese was found on Maiduguri road on Thursday evening.

     

  • Kano Governorship Election: Deputy Gov. rescued not arrested – Police

    Kano Governorship Election: Deputy Gov. rescued not arrested – Police

    Police have denied arresting the Kano state deputy governor, Nasiru Yusuf Gawuna, at an Inec collation centre on Monday.

    The police claimed that the deputy governor was not arrested but rescued when some persons reportedly attempted to disrupt election results collation.

    Videos of Gawuna being taken away from the collation centre by the police operatives have since gone viral.

    And there is another video of him arguing at a police station, but the police operatives insist that the deputy governor was rescued from the collation centre.

    “The deputy governor was at the collation centre to observe the process but was not involved in the alleged result sheets snatching,” police spokesperson in the state, Abdullahi Haruna, said.

    It was gathered that two chieftains of the All Progressive Congress (APC) were arrested.

    One is a commissioner and the other is a local government chief.

    The PRO said the two were arrested around 1.00am on Monday morning, after allegedly disrupting the Nassarawa Collation Centre.

    “They were alleged to have penetrated the collation centre and attempted to destroy the election results sheets. While his Excellency, the deputy governor of Kano state, Dr. Nasiru Yusuf Gawuna was rescued from the scene,” he added.

  • Driver shot dead as gunmen kidnap expatriate in Kano

    Driver shot dead as gunmen kidnap expatriate in Kano

    Gunmen in the early hours of Tuesday in Kano, killed a driver and kidnapped an expatriate in the metropolis.

    The expatriate, who is a staff of Triacta Construction Company working on Kano Zoo Road under path, was abducted at the construction site in the metropolis.

    An eye witness who pledged anonymity told the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Kano on Tuesday that the incident happened around 7:00am as the company’s staff were returning to work after the election break.

    The eye witness said the gunmen arrived in the site and shot the expatriate’s driver before taking him away to unknown destination.

    When contacted, the Police Public Relations Officer, DSP Abdullahi Haruna, who confirmed the story, said the person kidnapped was a Lebanese.

    He explained that the gunmen also shot one other person dead and injured another, pointing out that the expatriate went out without his assigned security and driver.

    He, however, said that investigation into the matter was on after which details would follow.

  • BREAKING: INEC declares Kano governorship election inconclusive

    BREAKING: INEC declares Kano governorship election inconclusive

    The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has declared the governorship election in Kano State as inconclusive.

    The Returning Officer for the Governorship election in the state, Prof. Bibi Shehu announced this shortly after the compilation of the election results from the 44 Local Government Areas in the state on Monday in Kano.

    According to him, the declaration of the election as inconclusive is in accordance with section 26 of the INEC Act.

    He said the number of canceled votes cast is beyond the margin between the candidate with the highest votes and the one that came second.

    He explained that the difference between the candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Abba Kabir-Yusuf, who leads in the votes declared, and that APC candidate, Gov. Abdullahi Ganduje, who cane second, was 26,000 votes, while the votes cancelled were 128,572.

    He said that INEC would fix a date to conduct election in 172 polling units, where the election was cancelled due to disturbances, over voting and non usage of the card reader machine.

    The returning officer added that the election would also hold in Gama ward with over 40,000 registered voters whose result sheets got missing.

    Shehu disclosed that PDP scored 1,014,474, and the APC had 987,819 votes, adding that 2,155,128 votes were recorded as valid and 49,761 rejected.

    The Returning Officer said that the total registered voters in the state is 5,249, 989 while the total accredited voters was 2,211,528 and the total votes cast were 2,184,889.

  • Kano guber: Police ‘arrest’ Ganduje’s deputy, Commissioner

    The Kano State Police Command have taken the state deputy Governor, Nasiru Gawuna and the State Commissioner for Local Government, Alhaji Sule Garo into custody over alleged threat to public peace.

    The two were arrested for alleged disruption of the Collation of results of the Governorship Elections at the Nasarawa Local Government area Collation Centre.

    It was gathered that the two were saved from being manhandled by supporters of the main opposition Peoples Democratic Party candidate, at the Centre.

    The incident which took place at about 2:00 am was said to be responsible for the delay in releasing the final tally of the Kano State governorship race which is likely to decide the winner of the elections..

    Details later.

  • Jubilation in Kano as PDP candidate takes early lead ahead APC’s Ganduje

    Jubilation in Kano as PDP candidate takes early lead ahead APC’s Ganduje

    Supporters of the candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party in the Kano State governorship elections, Abba Yusuf, took to the streets of Kano on Saturday to celebrate an early lead.

    The celebration began for the supporters of the main opposition party’s candidate when news filtered through mobile phones that the party had recorded symbolic victories against Governor Abdulahi Ganduje’s All Progressives Congress in constituencies of his close allies.

    The constituencies included that of the state Deputy Governor, Nasiru Gawuna, and former governor and senator-elect, Ibrahim Shekarau.

    At the Magwan polling unit 056 where the deputy governor, Gawuna, voted, the PDP candidate polled 210 votes to defeat Ganduje, who polled197 votes.

    Ganduje suffered a similar fate at PU 022 at the Giginyu Primary School, where Shekarau voted.

    Results from the unit indicated that the PDP garnered 143 votes to defeat Ganduje who polled 91 votes.

    At PU 029, located at Zango ward in Kano Municipality LGA, the PDP scored 147 votes, while the APC had 70 votes.

  • BREAKING: Court sacks Kwankwaso’s anointed candidate in Kano guber race

    A federal high court in Kano on Monday nullified the primary election that led to emergence of PDP gubernatorial candidate in Kano, Abba Yusuf.

    Recall that, Abba Yusuf, is PDP candidate was anointed for the race by a former Governor of the State, Senator Rabiu Kwankwaso.

    Rather, the Court endorsed the candidacy of another aspirant on the platform of the party, Alhaji Ibrahim Al-Amin Little, whose candidacy is opposed by Kwankwaso, the leader of the PDP in Kano State.
    But the party in the state has said the ruling of the court only affects it and not Yusuf.

    It said in a statement shortly after the judgement: “The PDP Kano State wishes to draw the attention of the general public that the High Court judgement concerns only our party and not our candidate.

    “The party has already appealed the judgement while our candidate continues with preparations for the upcoming governorship election.”

  • Police arrest serving rep member over APC, PDP bloody clash in Kano

    The Police Command in Kano State has confirmed the arrest of a member representing Kiru/Bebeji Federal Constituency, Abdulmumini Jibrin-Kofa, over Thursday’s clash between supporters of PDP and those of APC in the state.

    Jibrin-Kofa is a candidate in Saturday’s election into the House of Reps.

    In the same vein, the Commissioner of Police in Kwara State, Kayode Egbetokun, also confirmed the arrest of the PDP Kwara South Senatorial candidate, Rufai Ibrahim, over his alleged link with Tuesday’s attack on the All Progressives Congress senatorial candidate, Lola Ashiru, in Ojoku.

    The Inspector General of Police, Mohammed Adamu, on Friday in Abuja said the suspects were arrested in connection with the killings in Kwara and Kano states respectively.

    Adamu explained this while answering questions at a media briefing where he featured alongside the chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission, Prof. Mahmood Yakubu, on the Commission’s preparations for Saturday’s national elections.

    He said that the suspects, who happened to be candidates participating in Saturday’s elections, were arrested for having connections with the crisis in the two states, and that they needed to defend themselves.

    “We heard of what happened in Kwara, the Commissioner of Police reported that two people were killed and the group of people that were suspected to have perpetrated the killing were arrested.

    “And one of them is a candidate of a political party. So, because he is a candidate in the election, should we allow him to go without facing the law?

    “So, he has been arrested with others; he needs to defend himself as regards the murder allegation.

    “The same thing in Kano. We all know that there was a problem in Kano, two people were killed in Kano, some vehicles were burnt down. Police had to move to arrest people that were committing this crime on the scene.

    “In the course of making the arrest, one of the suspect happened to be a candidate in the election that is supposed to take place. Do we leave him because he is a candidate?

    “I think he should defend himself, that is why he was arrested.’’

    The Public Relations Officer of the Kano State Command, DSP Abdullahi Haruna, said that Jibrin-Kofar was arrested alongside some political leaders from the area in connection with the clash between supporters of the PDP and the APC at Kofa village in Bebeji Local Government Area.

    He said Jibrin-Kofa was arrested alongside the political leader for questioning over the incident.

    No fewer than two persons lost their lives following the clash, while 20 vehicles were burnt and 18 others vandalised.

    Meanwhile, the PDP on Friday demanded the immediate and unconditional release of its Kwara South Senatorial candidate, Senator Rufai Ibrahim; and other members of the party.

    PDP maintained that the concerned persons were “framed-up, arrested and detained” by the Police in Kwara State.

    The party, in a statement issued by its National Publicity Secretary, Mr. Kola Ologbondiyan, in Abuja, said that the continued detention of Ibrahim on the eve of a crucial election in which he is a lead contender was provocative.

    Ologbondiyan cautioned the Police to stop harassing, arresting and detaining PDP members on “flimsy charges” that could directly pitch security agents against the people.

  • JUST IN: Five feared dead as Kwankwaso, Kofa supporters clash in Kano

    Five people were feared dead on Thursday at Bebeji Local Government Area of Kano state when supporters loyal to former Governor of Kano state, Senator Rabi’u Musa Kwankwaso and former House Committee chairman on Appropriation, Alhaji Abdulmumuni Jibrin Kofa engaged in a bloody clash.

    According to eyewitness account, trouble started when Senator Kwankwaso’s convoy while returning from campaign rally passed through an open space where Kofa and his supporters were praying for peaceful conduct of the general elections.

    It was gathered that Kwankwaso’s convoy disrupted the ongoing prayer session, which resulted in the bloody clash that reportedly led to the death of five people with many others from both sides were injured.

    According to an eyewitness account who pleaded anonymity, “the long motorcade of Senator Kwankwaso which disrupted the prayers was actually the cause of the problem.

    “It was, indeed, a bloody sight. The Kwankwaso people had provoked Kofa’s supporters who were conducting a peaceful prayer session for the peaceful conduct of the elections.

    “I counted five dead bodies which were moved away on a police Hilux Van. Many vehicles were set ablaze; and buildings around the Kofa neighbourhood were also burnt.”

    It was further learnt that both sides were said to have used dangerous weapons, during the bloody clash, which lasted for some hours before Police operatives intervened.

    When contacted, the state Commissioner of Police, Mr. Wakili Mohammed said he was yet to be fully briefed on the incident.

    “When I am fully briefed, I will call you and give you the full details. For now, I cannot tell you what I don’t know,” he said.