Lukman Abdulmalik
The Kano State Peace Advocates (KASPA) has called for a peaceful Local Government Chairmanship election.
The call was made during a press conference on Monday at the Nigeria Union of Journalists (NUJ) Secretariat, Kano.
Publicity Secretary, KASPA, Comrade Sufyan Lawal Kabo who read the briefing noted that the call is necessary due to attempts by the All Progressive Congress (APC) to sabotage the process.
“While Kano State Independent Electoral Commission (KANSIEC) and other stakeholders have gone far with the preparations for the conduct of the elections, APC in the state has been, directly and indirectly, deploying means to sabotage the process.
“This started with several attempts to obtain court orders which did not succeed.
“On Wednesday the 16th of October, the secretary of the party in the state, Ibrahim Zakari Sarina, took a list of APC candidates to the commission.
“In a video that went viral on both social and conventional media platforms, Sarina was seen with the KANSIEC`s commissioner in charge of political parties trying to force him to collect the APC’s list.
“But the commissioner refused to collect because, according to him, the APC did not follow due process as laid down by the commission.”
KASPA appealed to the Kano State Commissioner of Police, CP Salman Dogo Garba, Kano State Commandant, Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC), Mohammed Lawal Falala, and Kano State Director of Department of State Services (DSS), Alhassan Muhammad, His Royal Highness, the Emir of Kano State, Malam Muhammadu Sunusi Il, and Kano State Council of Ulamas, to call APC to order and respect the institutional mandate of KANSIEC to unnecessary violence during and after the Kano 2024 LG Chairmanship elections.
KASPA is a Kano-based coalition of 37 non-governmental and non-partisan civil society organizations that promote violence-free political activities, sensitized stakeholders, politicians, youths, and students, to shun any form of political violence and serve as good ambassadors for the development of the democratic process.
