The Kano State government says it will file a petition against one of the judges who gave a judgement that sacked Governor Abba Yusuf at the state Governorship Election Petition Tribunal for allegedly making disparaging and insulting comments about the New Nigeria Peoples Party (NNPP) and the Kwankwasiyya political movement.
The State Commissioner for Information, Baba Halilu Dantiye, who disclosed the resolve of the government during a press briefing on Tuesday, said the judge, Justice Benson Anya, who was a member of the three-member panel led by Justice Oluyemi Akintan-Osadebay, had not only insulted the people of the state by wearing a red cap but also “insulted the late Malam Aminu Kano who was the champion of wearing a red cap in Kano, and patriotic citizens of Kano State.”
Dantiye said beyond the general insult, Anya also made comments deemed unedifying by referring to NNPP members as “red cap wearers”, “violent and terrorist cults”, “bandits” and “bitter losers” over a threat against the lives of the tribunal judges which was issued by the former Commissioner of Land and Physical Planning, Adamu Aliyu, who was promptly fired by Yusuf.
