Opposition All Progressives Congress (APC) stakeholders in Kano state have cried out over an alleged threat to their lives by supporters of the ruling New Nigeria Peoples Party (NNPP).

Addressing newsmen at the National Secretariat of the party in Abuja, the spokesman for the stakeholders, Alhaji Rabiu Sulaiman Bichi alleged that the lives and properties of leaders and members of APC have been the target of the supporters of the ruling party in the state.

He alleged that the NNPP-led administration had perfected the strategy to unleash mayhem in the state on Saturday under the guise of a mass rally in protest of the loss at both the state governorship election petition tribunal and the Court of Appeal in Abuja.

Bichi, who is also the director general of Gawuna/Garo Campaign Organisation noted that, unlike the 8-year peaceful reign of APC, Kano state people have been living in fear since the new administration came on board in May this year.

The APC leaders claimed that it was unfortunate that the people of Kano now live in perpetual fear of intimidation and threat to life and property, since the assumption of office by Governor Abba Yusuf, starting with the orgy of violence by elements of the NNPP, targeted at APC stalwarts in the state.

This, they said, was aside from the destruction of the state headquarters of the party and the setting ablaze of properties of some leading figures of the APC as well as the demolition of public property built by the Dr Abdullahi Umar Ganduje when he was Governor of the state.

Bichi noted: “Kano remained peaceful throughout the eight-year administration of the APC as evidenced in the increased number of governmental, non-governmental Organisations and corporate bodies rushing into Kano to hold their conferences, seminars, symposia and Annual General Meetings and importantly inflow of Foreign Direct Investments (FDIs).

“Since the conduct of the 2023 governorship election and the declaration of the New Nigeria People’s Party (NNPP) as the winner, the ruling APC as a peace-loving party, remained calm and shunned any form of violence.”

He further alleged that “things appear to be getting worse since the embattled leader of the NNPP Senator Rabi’u Musa Kwankwaso came back to Kano on Sunday, where he held a meeting of the party’s stakeholders, at the end of which they came up with a line up of activities that included unleashing of violence to not only eliminate the APC in Kano but also to make it ungovernable in the event of Supreme Court judgement in favour of the APC.

“We have it from reliable sources that they are planning a mass protest on Saturday during which key figures of the APC will be targeted, if possible to eliminate them.”

Despite the provocation by agents and supporters of the ruling party, the stakeholders who include former commissioners, former and serving state Assembly members as well as former and serving appointees of both the state and federal governments said they would remain law-abiding and would not do anything to disturb peace in Kano state.

The APC leaders also called on the Kano State Police command and other security agencies in the state to be alive to their responsibilities and take appreciative measures to avoid loss of life and property.

The APC leaders then said that arrangements have been concluded to stage a mass rally in support of the tenets of democracy and the rule of law in the country on Saturday in the state capital. (The Nation)

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