A chieftain of the New Nigeria People’s Party (NNPP), Buba
Galadima said the country could have been on fire had the Supreme Court sacked
Governor Abba Yusuf of Kano State during its judgements last Friday.
Galadima stated this in an interview on Channels
Television’s Sunday Politics.
The NNPP chieftain congratulated President Bola Tinubu of
the All Progressives Congress (APC) for not interfering with the independence
of the judiciary though his partyman, Nasir Gawuna, was involved in the matter.
He said, “I am congratulating Mr President for not
interfering with the judiciary because Nigeria could have been on fire by now
if what happened on Friday did not happen.
“I congratulate him (Tinubu) for having the strength of
character and you can see that peace has pervaded the whole of Nigeria and our
rating in the eyes of the world has come out,” he added.
Galadima said there was a plan to wrest power from the NNPP
in Kano as the party kicked out the APC from the seat of power in the last
poll.
“There was a plan to take Kano by force from every level,
but I congratulate the Supreme Court for restoring the honour, dignity of the
judiciary.
“If they had ruled otherwise, they could have been stoned on
the street of Nigeria and nobody could be able to ride a car with the
inscription of Supreme Court of Nigeria, and there would have been a total of
confidence in the judiciary and I don’t think anybody would ever dream of going
to the Supreme Court to seek redress,” he said.
Recall that the Supreme Court delivered judgements in eight
governorship disputes last Friday, upturning the verdicts of lower courts in
three of the cases.
Of the eight cases, those of Kano, Zamfara and Plateau
eerily stood out as the Supreme Court overruled the earlier decisions of the
tribunal and the appellate court to reinstate the governors in the three
states.
The judgements have been applauded by opposition NNPP and
the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) who now control Kano; as well as Plateau and
Zamfara, respectively.
Prior to the Friday’s judgement on Kano governorship
dispute, tension was high in Kano State which has been a battleground between
APC gladiators like ex-Kano governor and current national chairman of the
ruling party, Abdullahi Ganduje; as well as opposition heavyweights like 2023
NNPP presidential candidate, Rabiu Kwankwaso.
Though NNPP’s Yusuf and Kwankwaso’s ally was declared as
winner of the March 2023 poll by the electoral umpire, both the tribunal and
the appellate court subsequently sacked Yusuf and declared APC’s Gawuna as the
winner of the election, sparking pockets of violence-tainted demonstrations in
the ancient city of Kano.
Yusuf approached the apex court to seek redress and the
justices reversed his sack and declared him as the duly elected governor last
Friday, eliciting wild spread jubilation from NNPP supporters and red-capped
Kwankwasiyya members in Kano.
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