Kano’s NNPP Election Was Illegal – Doguwa

Kano’s NNPP Election Was Illegal —Doguwa

By Hussaini Ibrahim Kafi

Former Majority Leader in the House of Representatives, Rt. Hon. Alhassan Ado Doguwa,, has alleged that the electoral processes that saw the NNPP garner votes in the presidential election as well as those that made Abba Yusuf emerge as Governor of Kano State were both “illegal” and “corrupt.”

“I want to tell you whatever the NNPP garnered in the name of that election, either the presidential or even governorship elections and even in other subsidiary elections, was all through the back door.

“Those who succeeded and concluded their litigation and got away with it, fine, but I put it to Nigerians that it was a corrupt process; it was a clear cut.

“I am talking about the corrupt means they (NNPP) got that many results: 900,000 votes, almost 1 million. They got all such figures through the back doors because they were able to have access illegally. Although original ballot papers were obtained through illegal means,

“In my own opinion, and for every right-thinking politician in Kano, it’s not about someone being angry—if you continue to do something illegally, if you continue to cast your vote illegally, or if you continue to have votes that were cast illegally, you are breaching the conditions of the law.

“If you do that 100 times, the law won’t always be there for you. It doesn’t matter how many times you try to get reelected as governor through illegal means and it doesn’t matter how many times the court or the laws say, Oh, this was the wrong approach and that has to be corrected.”

“Laws are meant to be respected and not taken for granted. But when you tell me that you have people who are angry, angry for what?” he said.

“Angry for casting their votes wrongly? or angry for the inaction of officials of the INEC?”