2023: NNPP Vows to Withdraw Peace Accord Signatory Over Police Bias
By Ozumi Abdul
Irked by what it referred to as ‘police bias’ and impunity of the Kano State Government’, the New Nigerian People’s Party (NNPP) has threatened to withdraw its signatory of a ‘Peace Accord Pact’ it signed, ahead of the 2023 general elections.
The opposition party, at a press conference on Sunday, in Kano accused the Kano State Police Command of planning to arrest the party’s chieftains and members in the 44 local government areas of the state.
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Speaking during the conference organized by the party’s stakeholders in its Kano’s secretariat, the party’s senatorial candidate for Kano North, Dr. Baffa Bichi, said that the party’s members in the state are running with thin patience as a result of the persecution they are facing in the hands of the APC-led state government.
Dr. Bichi who spoke alongside all other NNPP’s senatorial candidates, gubernatorial candidate Abba Gida Gida and house of representatives candidates alleged that the Kano State Commissioner of Police, Mamman Dauda, in collaboration with the state government are creating crisis that may impede electoral process and even cause the postponement of elections in the State.
He also accused the Kano Police Command of refusing to enforce a court order that said that some NNPP members arrested be released unconditionally.
He said that there is available data to show the list of their party members that have been earmarked to be arrested by the Kano State Government, and Police Command.
Dr. Bichi appealed to all the security agencies to monitor the situation in Kano with care and curiosity, threatening that NNPP is planning a peaceful protest across all the 44 LGAs in Kano so that the people will know the real situation on the ground.
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