Kano Gov’ship Saga: 500 Lawyers To Stand For APC’s Gawuna at Supreme Court

Kano Gov’Ship Saga: 500 Lawyers To Stand For APC’s Gawuna At Supreme Court

By Hussaini Ibrahim Kafi

No fewer than 500 private legal practitioners have volunteered to defend Nasir Gawuna, the Kano governorship candidate of the All Progressives Congress, APC, at the Supreme Court.

Joseph Onwudiwe, a spokesperson for the lawyers, under the aegis of the Guardians of Democracy and Rule of Law, stated this at a news conference in Abuja on Tuesday.

Mr Onwudiwe said that the gesture was to enhance the country’s democracy.

“Nigerians have observed keenly the situation unfolding in Kano State regarding the March 18 governorship election.

“As a group saddled with the onerous responsibility of safeguarding our democratic ethos and values, we are no longer comfortable with the unwarranted attacks on the judiciary.

“And certain moves to blackmail the Court into giving backing to wanton electoral malfeasance and vote heist.

“We will no longer fold our arms as lawyers and watch the judiciary be continuously harangued and the temple of justice desecrated by a group of people who failed to perfect an electoral heist,” he said.

Onwudiwe applauded the sound reasoning that resonated in the judgments of the tribunal and the Court of Appeal.

He said that the judgments aligned with the yearnings and aspirations of the majority of Kano people as expressed in the valid number of votes cast in the March 18 Kano Governorship election.

He said the group was not surprised that Gov. Abba Yusuf of Kano State and his agents had become insistent in selling propaganda in the name of a contradiction in the CTC of the Appeal Court Judgment.