Calls for review of Kano guber case: Kwankwaso goofed – Commissioner

This was made known by Kano State Commissioner for information, Malam Muhammad Garba, in a statement he issued to our Correspondent in Kano.

Garba said: “The call for the review of Supreme Court, Court of Appeal and the Tribunal’s judgement in the governorship election by Senator Rabi’u Musa Kwankwaso is a clear testimony of the former governor’s total obliviousness on the jurisdictional procedures that affirmed Dr. Abdullahi Umar Ganduje as governor.”

Garba said it was surprising that Kwankwaso was calling for such review on no grounds, considering their glaring defeat and acceptance of same.

He said the senator, who was quoted to have claimed “voter disenfranchisement and manipulation of judicial processes” in the Kano case, was just being driven by his mawkishness and apparently by recent developments in Imo and Bayelsa states, which scenarios were in no way comparable.

Garba pointed out that while some legal practitioners were looking at technical issues in the two cases, in Kano it was entirely a different ball game.

He said the petitioner, the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Kano, failed to neither substantively provide evidence that there was any irregularity in the election held on March 9, nor produce direct evidence to prove to the courts that they were not defeated in the March 23, supplementary election.

He said: “What the Supreme Court ruled was the affirmation of the judgement of the tribunal and Court of Appeal. That is to say that the PDP failed woefully to prove their case and that is the substance of the case. Therefore, there is no basis whatsoever for review of the Kano case.”

The commissioner added that the move was a failed agitation and part of a strategy to keep his disillusioned supporters to continue to remain hopeful and to divert the attention of the government, which he said, was focused on execution of laudable development programmes particularly now that all litigations were over.

He expressed optimism that the judiciary would not allow itself to be pushed to the path of anarchy in a futile attempt to subvert justice.

Garba also called on the people of Kano State to shun the frolics of self-centred politicians, who were always bent on heating up the polity to their disadvantage.