Hit by Kwankwaso’s warning message, APC reacts
*Says he is a threat to security
By KEMI KASUMU
The message by National Leader of the opposition New Nigeria People’s Party (NNPP) and former Governor of Kano State, Senator Rabi’u Musa Kwankwaso, warning against attempt by the Nigeria’s All Progressives Congress (APC)-led Federal Government of Nigeria to create a new breed of Boko Haram in Kano, appears to have hit the party as its state chapter not only kicks but also calls for his arrest.
Signs of that the party felt the heat from the Kwankwaso’s strong and very highly indicting statement, made while addressing a stakeholders meeting in the state, came via a reaction by the State APC Chairman, Abdullahi Abbas, who called for the arrest of a the former governor, saying he was a threat to security of the state.
The DEFENDER reports that Abbas was responding to the allegations made by Kwankwaso, who accused APC and politicians he said lost out of power contest in Kano State and turned enemies of breeding a new breed of Boko Haram terrorists and insurgents, as well as misleading the Federal Government to destabilise the state.
Specifically, Kwankwaso made the statement while speaking at the flag-off ceremony of 85-kilometre road construction in his hometown of Madobi community, adding that those forces needed to be go and know that Kano people will resist any such attempt to turn the state into chaotic situation simply because of a 2027 election.
He warned them to take caution as he and his supporters are not afraid of losing election but that, if the accused parties do not desist and think the better way to take power in the state is to use force and violence, it will be rather be that instead for NNPP to lose the election, both NNPP and APC will go down together for another party to emerge.
But to Abbas, the State APC Chairman, such warning should never come by anyone and he therefore called on security agencies to arrest the senator so he could list the names of those he referred to as the enemies working against the state.
He also noted that no amount of threat by Kwankwaso, could intimidate the federal government.
“We want to call on security agents in the strongest terms to arrest this man so that he reveals the identity of those he referred to as enemies of the state working for the federal government to recruit Boko Haram terrorists and insurgents’’
The chairman noted that the New Nigeria People’s Party (NNPP) has had sinister motives to foment trouble in Kano.
“Kwankwaso for a long time has been a security threat to Kano and the nation in view of his antecedents. He runs a movement in which he has been widely accused of recruiting youth, mostly school dropouts to unleash terror on the people in the state,” he alleged.
Abbas also alleged that since the ‘forceful’ enthronement of Sanusi Lamido Sanusi as Emir, hundreds of weapon-brandishing thugs have been recruited, and stationed at the emir’s palace, where all sorts of illicit substances are openly being sold, posing a threat to residents within and around.
