Supreme Court’s bullet saves dead bodies in Kano

PRESENTLY there is some relief or semblance of peace in the country following last Friday’s Supreme Court’s rulings relating to gubernatorial cases from the Appeal Court that the apex court scrutinised and re- scrutinised. I was particularly elated and un- elated at the same time that the Kano gubernatorial case was eventually resolved in favour of Governor Abba. Why I was elated ( and why I am elated still) is not something I want to dwell on.

Before the apex court saved Kano from what it has saved it from I was well in touch physically, spiritually and intellectually with small but significant circles of beings, positively strangely strange men, who are not like other men. What the outcome would be with respect to Kano would not be perfectly easy. To save Nigeria – your country my country our country – Kano must be saved with a closure which the Supreme Court has done against its natural inclination.

All the social forces that were threatening the judicial outcome were spiritually compelled to be an impossible wager – if you know what I mean. I won’t go the whole hog here. But let me hand my readers to an intellectual, a remarkable intellectual from Kano who nicely embellishes whatever he feeds on. You as an ardent follower and reader of this column know him well and well and very, very well.

He, to my admiration – and perhaps to yours as well – is never bereft of manly charm, a marvellously handsome one of words and words and words whose eyes well reflected with a spectacular splendour what things were what things before the Supreme Court compelled Kano to dodge a bullet in a spirit of inspired justice.

Over now to IBK our IBK who has written what he has written and which I hereby report ( verbatim) in his own natural reportorial trope without scruples.

The truth is that Kano has dodged a bullet on account of the SC judgment. Whole sections of the Kano State population thought that the APC people, especially the muchhated former governor, Ganduje, was resolved to use the federal might, to subvert the will of the people in the elections. So, the teeming youths in Kano, mostly fanatical supporters of Kwankwaso, the NNPP, and the sitting Governor, Abba, had resolved to attack and destroy or kill off all APC offices and patrons.

Such youths were determined to cause apocalyptic carnage in Kano if Abba was removed as the governor. Even the Friday mosques were sparsely attended - an unprecedented thing in Kano. Schools were shut, and traffic in the bustling city was reduced to the barest minimum. There were patrols by a combined squad of army, airforce, police, and the navy ( there's a navy formation sited in Dawnau) within the city. But by around 11 a. m., news filtered through to the agitated and suicidal mob that the SC had dismissed the APC'S challenge to Abba's victory. From 1 pm until well into the night, there were wild celebrations all over the city.

The social media were full of innuendos and hate and denigrating speeches and videos and audio posts against the contender, Gawuna, and an ocean of vitriol against Ganduje and the APC officials in Kano. It was a huge sigh of relief that the SC judgment diffused the situation. As an aside, let me say that anyone familiar with Kano politics knows that there's now a huge mass of young people ( because of the very high birth rate) who are blind, purblind, wild, dogmatic, and fanatical supporters of Kwankwaso and the NNPP.

Not only the youths, but most educated people, across the age brackets, most middle ranking artisans and small scale business people, ‘ tok tok’ and commercial drivers in Kano support the NNPP. The party scored the very few million votes for any candidate in the governorship election across the country. Even in Lagos, Sanwo- Olu won with a mere 600 thousand votes! In Zamfara, Lawan won with a margin of 70 thousand votes.

The NNPP in Kano won two out of the three senatorial zones, won 26 out of the 30 or so House of Reps seats, and won 36 out of the 44 house of assembly seats. And the NNPP government had been in office for more than six months, complete with a whole machinery of government, had passed a budget, and had acquired universal legitimacy in the eyes of even some APC supporters ( some did audios attacking the decision of their party to go to court over the election of Abba).

So, had the SC removed Abba, the FG would have been forced to impose a state of emergency on that state. And had Gawuna won at the SC, he could only be in office at the expense of the dead bodies of hundreds of youths and the dead officials of the APC that were not fortunate to escape to Abuja.

So, Kano State and all the people of Kano had truly dodged a bullet the very day the SC delivered justice to Governor Abba. And if the words of Justice Okoro are anything to go by, the tribunal and the appeal court justices were either induced to give those flawed judgments, or were grossly incompetent, or had a hidden agenda or all three. Justice Okoro was emphatic that the previous judgments were "incomprehensive and perverse" in law. So, here we are in Kano in peace and in harmony with our elected governor! Indeed, the situation in Kano was so tense that the city was virtually shut down on Thursday night and early morning Friday.

You see, dear Prof., because of the population's long tradition of political identification with the underdog, the legacy left behind by the old NEPU led by Mallam Aminu Kano, and the frankly baffling cult figure of The Kwankwaso ( the definite article indicates his mythic and charismatic hold on whole sections of the population) and, for a number of reasons, the massive popularity of the sitting Governor, Abba Yusuf ( Abba is a Semitic word which means ‘ Father’ and his nickname ‘ Gida Gida,’ which means from house to house or The Household Itself), his larger than life charisma, rhetorical gifts ( which move thousands in a rally), and his projected image as the successor to The Kwankwaso) - those two persons have a wild, incredibly popular appeal to the masses and the elite alike.

Professor Ibrahim Bello- Kano has reported and communicated un- laboriously to my realistic imagination, spiritual satisfaction and patriotic fervor. Clearly, the masses and elite whose sempiternal patriotism, semperfidelis mood and semperparatus mannerism never ever depart from their ideological trope are masses and elite all our compatriots from everywhere to everywhere need to emulate and re- emulate selflessly from now onwards.

Their elixir needs to be injected into everyone by everyone from everywhere to everywhere. And the Supreme Court’s bullet that has saved Kano must always be inspired every now and then to save dead bodies of our compatriots from dying ingloriously henceforth. Our Supreme Court justices must hearken and hearken to our supreme voices. If they do they will save their dead bodies as well from dying ingloriously. O Supreme Spiritual Masters of Merit, may you ever be heard and listened to!