PDP vows to drag Kano govt to court over alleged ‘Kwankwassiyya treatment’

Kano State chapter of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has threatened to drag the state government to court for allegedly giving it “Kwankwassiyya treatment” over its planed rally in Gaya area of the state on this Saturday, March 24.

The PDP said it had scheduled to hold a rally in Gaya this Saturday but that the state government, is using the police to stop its rally, like it did to the state former governor, Rabiu Kwankwaso.

The state party chairman, Alhaji Mas’ud El-Jibril Doguwa, who made this known when he addressed newsmen in Kano on Friday said, “The police only yesterday (Thursday) communicated to us another decision, advising that we shelve our planned rally over what they maliciously called “security challenges”.

Doguwa said that what was most worrying was that as a matter of official courtesy and to ensure adequate security coverage that the PDP had written to inform all relevant security agencies including the Nigeria Police and the DSS weeks ago.

He added that all the security agencies had assured the party of their cooperation, a development according to him, that gave the opposition party the courage to go ahead with their preparations, only for the state government days to the planned rally to now give the PDP “Kwankwassiyya treatment”.

Kwankwaso had to shelve his planned visit to Kano State recently after the state police warned him against going ahead with the proposed visit based on security reasons.

Regretting the alleged treatment it is getting from the police, Doguwa said that his party had planned to use the rally to receive the gubernatorial candidate of Democratic People Movement (PDM), Engr Bashir Ishaq and his supporters into the PDP.

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He cited sections 40 and 41 (1) and (2) A of the 1999 constitution, amended as guaranteeing every Nigerian freedom of assembly and association with other persons including belonging to any political party.

He added that it was only fair if a registered political party is allowed to exercise its constitutionally guaranteed fundamental human rights to assemble in Gaya tomorrow (today).

 

 

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