2023 Polls: Kwankwaso Arrives Kano In Carnival Mood

• NNPP applauds Police, NSCDC for arresting over 300 suspected thugs

BY OUR CORRESPONDENT – Ahead of Saturday’s Presidential and National Assembly elections, the national leader and presidential candidate of the New Nigeria Peoples Party (NNPP), Musa Rabi’u Kwankwaso has arrived in Kano with claims of having toured over 500 out of 774 local governments in the 36 states and Abuja.

Kwankwaso, who returned home from Kaduna State after holding his final rally yesterday, was accompanied by the NNPP gubernatorial candidate, Abba Yusuf, his deputy Aminu Gwarzo and all the three Senatorial candidates of the party in Kano state.

In a carnival-like manner, NNPP members and well-wishers of the former Kano state governor, in their thousands, chanted and drummed support for all the party’s candidates.

According to the NNPP Campaign Council’s Chief Spokesperson, Sanusi Bature, the party, and its stakeholders strongly believe that a peaceful atmosphere is required for the conduct of free, fair, and credible 2023 general elections.

Bature said in a signed statement that “the party’s supporters will abide by the police and security advisories that are not motivated by the ruling party.”

Reacting to the Police admonition that all political parties suspend their rallies to avoid clashes, the NNPP, in a letter sent to the new Commissioner of Police, said; “It is not staging a rally but rather receiving its Presidential candidate who would be in Kano to join other Nigerians in exercising their civic rights on Saturday 25th of February, 2023.”

The party further said; “Kwankwaso is the second Kano citizen to secure a presidential ticket of a major political party after Malam Aminu Kano in the history of Nigerian politics. This gives an advantage to the party with the hope that Kwankwaso will emerge as the first Kano man to serve Nigeria as the democratically elected president.

“We have thwarted the APC scheme to deny our members, supporters, and stakeholders their fundamental freedom of political association as enshrined in the Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria.

“We welcome the development from the joint security operation of the army, police, and civil defence personnel who have arrested over 300 political thugs assigned to orchestrate attacks on the motorcade of our presidential candidate.

“We learned that two serving Local Government chairmen were also arrested in connection to the illegal possession of firearms. A notorious gang leader of APC thugs, who has been known as the ruling party’s hit man, is now in the custody of the police.”

The NNPP has therefore “urged the police to ensure that all the political criminals and thugs arrested are brought to book to face the full wrath of the law”