The Kano state police command has called on the former governor of the state Rabiu Kwankwaso, to postpone his Kano rally slated for 30th January 2018 in order not to jeopardize the relative peace the state is currently enjoying.
Rabiu Yusuf, commissioner of police in the state, who gave the warning on Friday morning, said failure to comply with it might attract “stiffer implication”.
Kwankwaso and the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) under the leadership of Abdullahi Ganduje, governor of the state, are set to hold parallel political rallies on January 30.
The two separate events are centred on the February 10 local government election in the state and the 2019 general election.
Addressing journalists at the Bompai police headquarters in Kano, Yusuf said intelligence information has revealed that the rally by the Kwankwaso group could be hijacked by “miscreants”.
He advised Kwankwaso to consider postponing his trip “until the tension generated is down”.
Last week, there were reports that the former governor had postponed the rally because of ill health.
But Kwankwaso refuted the report, attributing it to his detractors.
“It has come to our knowledge that out of desperation, some groups or individuals who are cronies of the Ganduje administration are sponsoring falsehood about Sen. Kwankwaso’s scheduled visit to his constituency on the 30th of January, read a statement which Binta Rabiu, his spokesman, issued on his behalf.
“We wish to make it categorically clear that Sen. Kwankwaso is not sick, in fact, he has been healthier; the scheduled visit has not been cancelled. Therefore, our teeming supporters should disregard this report which is a total falsehood,” the statement noted.
“The report is clearly the work of mischief makers who are desperately trying to prevent the visit of Kwankwaso who is been cherished by his teeming supporters.”
Kwankwaso is the senator representing Kano central.
