The All Progressives Congress Youth Enterprise Group in Kano (APC-YBCK) has dragged the governor of Kano State, Abba Yusuf, to the United Nations over alleged harassment of justices.
The group took a protest to the UN Home in Abuja on Friday, the place it referred to as on the worldwide neighborhood to sanction the Kano State authorities and its supporters for threatening the judiciary.
The chief of the group, Umar Ladiyo, whereas submitting a petition in opposition to Yusuf, mentioned that for the reason that assumption of workplace by the New Nigeria Peoples Get together (NNPP) in Kano State, the enterprise neighborhood has been at risk.
Ladiyo, whereas addressing journalists, mentioned they had been there to register their dissatisfaction with the demolition of properties value billions of naira with out adhering to due course of by the NNPP-led Kano State authorities.
He mentioned: “We’re additionally right here to enchantment to the UN to not enable the NNPP to pull it into the mud. We all know that Abba Yusuf and the NNPP sympathisers have been operating from pillar to publish to strain the worldwide neighborhood to intervene within the democratic course of in Nigeria.
“We’re right here to say let the rule of legislation prevail. Permit the court docket to train their rights. We’re right here to inform the UN that they shouldn’t be carried away by the actions of the NNPP authorities in Kano. Nigeria is a sovereign nation with legal guidelines and laws. It has a Structure and electoral legal guidelines.
“So each nation is certain by its legal guidelines and as a defender and promoter of democracy on this planet, we’re considering the UN ought to enable the Nigerian judiciary to do its work accordingly.
“So we’re interesting to the UN to not be carried away. They need to not take heed to these unwarranted remarks from different political events. We’re asking the United Nations to place a watch on this course of as a result of different political events are preaching violence.”
The group alleged that the NNPP-led authorities in Kano was recruiting thugs to trigger chaos in the event that they didn’t get what they needed.
