By Joy Odor
The Senate Minority Whip, Senator Rufa’i Hanga (NNPP) Kano Central has affirmed that the All Progressive Congress (APC) is apprehensive that the New Nigerian Peoples Party (NNPP) will win most of the local governments if the election is conducted which is why they run to Federal High Court’s to disqualified Prof Sani Malumfashi.
He made this known to newsmen on Wednesday in an interview shortly after the plenary.
The Lawmaker vowed that despite the disqualification of the electoral umpire barely four days to the local government elections in Kano, NNPP will at anytime dominate the state.
Recall that the Federal High Court’s, ruling on Tuesday, disqualified Prof Sani Malumfashi as the Chairman of the Kano State Independent Electoral Commission and five other members of the Commission on the ground that.
The presiding Judge, Simon Amobeda, in a ruling on a matter filed by Aminu Aliyu Tiga and the All Progressives Congress (APC), held that the Chairman was a political party card-carrying member.
According to him, what the Court succeeded in doing, is to postpone the evil days as NNPP at the moment is a household name in Kano.
“I am not ruling out the fact that APC are apprehensive that NNPP will win most of the local governments which is the reason for the court ruling.
“But tell me which state that APC is governing that another party has won even a councilor in the ongoing local government elections across the country.
“See Benue State, Kogi and so many other states, so why Kano State, why NNPP,” he noted.
Also commenting on NDLEA founding drugs in the premises of a ranking Senator, Senator Hanga explained that the NDLEA caught a guard in one of the Senator’s houses with Maruana popularly known as Indian hemp, not that it was found in his compound or inside a house he barely stay.
He bemeaoned that a government agency would accuse a senator of the Federal republic of Nigeria without evidence and denied the report, maintaining that it was misleading and urged the public to disregards such news.
“I am very surprised that a government agency like NDLEA can just wake up and accuse a senator, not just a senator but a ranking one in that matter without evidence.
“Infact, the distinguished confided in us that it was one of his security guards in one of his houses that was caught with Indian herm, not that it was found in his house.
“If ordinary citizens accused them (Senators) in that manner, they could stomach it because they are representing them but not a government agency, both of them are working to achieve the same goal, “it’s hard to take that” He laments.
