A pro-All Progressives Congress (APC) from Kano state, under the aegis of APC Youth Business Community in Kano (APC-YBCK), on Friday, stormed the United Nations House at the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Abuja, urging the UN to ignore the state governor, Abba Kabir Yusuf, and allow the country’s Apex Court decide his fate.
Leader of the group, Alhaji Umar Ladiyo, in a petition submitted at the UN office, part of which was read to newsmen accused the New Nigerian People’s Party (NNPP) led administration in the state of blackmailing the judiciary in order to secure favourable judgment in its appeal pending before the Supreme Court.
The APC group in its petition titled, “Rule of law shall prevail,” recalled the demolition of properties worth billions of Naira without recourse to due process by the NNPP-led Kano state government. It alleged that it was part of the coordinated plot to muscle the opposition party in the state and instigate them to violence.
The petition urged the UN to investigate and call the Kano State Government to order, to avoid chaos and disorder in the state.
It reads in part: “We are also here to appeal to the UN not to allow the NNPP to drag it into mud. We are in the know that Governor Abba Yusuf and the NNPP’s sympathisers have been running from pillar to post to pressurise the international community to intervene in the democratic process in Nigeria.
“We are here to say let the rule of law prevail. Allow the court to exercise their rights.
“We are here to tell the UN that they should not be carried away by the activities of the NNPP government in Kano, Nigeria is a sovereign Nation with laws and regulations. It has Constitution and electoral laws.
“So, every country is bound by its laws and United Nations as a defender and promoter of democracy in the world, we are thinking UN should allow Nigerian judiciary to do its work accordingly.
“So we are appealing to the UN not to be carried away. They should not listen to those unwarranted remarks from other political parties. We are asking the United Nations to put eye in this process because other political parties are preaching violence. In Kano specifically, they are recruiting thugs to cause chaos if they don’t get what they want. So we are asking the United Nations to put eye on that because we are true believers of democracy and we have confidence in the Court of law.”
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