Top Kano officials keeping vigil in Abuja

Ahead of today’s judgment, top government officials from Kano and Sokoto have relocated to Abuja.

Daily Trust reports that Governor Ganduje and his deputy, Nasiru Yusuf Gawuna, left Kano for Abuja since Wednesday; while many commissioners and other top government functionaries joined them on Friday.

A source within the cabinet said few commissioners have remained in Kano so as not to completely ground the government.

Thousands of supporters have been ferried to Abuja in buses in solidarity with the governor.

Speaking to our reporter, the state’s Commissioner for Local Government, Alhaji Murtala Sule Garo, said the APC-led government was confident of winning at the Supreme Court.

Garo said, “We have won at the tribunal and appeal court and we are hopeful to win at the Supreme Court. If you take the genesis of the March 23, 2019 re-run election that saw us victorious, you will find out that the March 9, 2019 gubernatorial election was declared inconclusive because of over-voting and violence,” he said.

On the other hand, Dr Rabi’u Sulaiman Bichi, an influential figure in the Kwankwasiyya movement, said the PDP approached the Supreme Court because it was not satisfied with the judgments of both the election petition tribunal and the appeal court, respectively.

He said, “We approached the Supreme Court because we are expecting justice there and God willing we will get it. We are hoping today’s judgment will be in our favour.”

The Ganduje/Abba-GidaGida debacle dominated public discourse in Kano and environs throughout last week.

It was the talk of the moment as people go about their businesses in markets, motor parks, shopping malls and stores. Security operatives were seen patrolling the city centre.