Scores of members of the Hausa community in Sagamu township of Ogun State have staged a peaceful protest to demand for justice over the ongoing governorship election crisis in Kano State.
The protesters, who were mostly youths took to the major roads of Sagamu, chanted solidarity songs and called on President Bola Ahmed Tinubu to intervene in the matter to prevent a breakdown of law and order.
Armed with placards with inscriptions, they expressed the fear that the crisis in Kano could spread to the southern part of the country should the judiciary employ any technicality to upturn the wishes of the Kano voters as expressed during the March 18, 2023 governorship election in the state.
While calling for justice that would bring peace not the type that wins the war, but loses the peace, the protesters said the mandate in Kano must be protected and defended from being snatched under any guise.
They, however, warned that peace may become a scarce commodity in Nigeria if nothing concrete was done to arrest the situation.
The inscriptions on the placards read, “Avoid bloodshed, ensure peace in Kano; We are safe in South, but injustice in Kano may spread violence; The Kano problem may spread to South; No to injustice, avoid anarchy in Kano; We are behind our mandate in Kano; Justice for peace in Kano” and “No to injustice, avoid anarchy in Kano.”
One of leaders of the protesters, Alhaji Nasir Seriki-Kano said the protest was to drum it to the hearings of the federal government and other stakeholders that something unimaginable may occur should the politicians through the judiciary deploy any tactics to throw away the political wishes of the people of Kano state on the disputed governorship poll.
