APC stakeholders knock NNPP for taking protest to London over Kano tribunal judgment

For taking Kano State Governorship Election Petition Tribunal judgement to London, stakeholders of the All Progressives Congress have knocked the New Nigeria Political Party, NNPP, on Monday.

The APC said, the behavior of Kano NNPP members is to intimidate the judiciary over the nullification of election of Kano governor, Abba Yusuf on September 20, while the election of its candidate, Nasiru Gawuna, was delivered as winner.

The London demonstration led by a chieftain of the NNPP, Dr Aminu Bello, took place in front of Nigeria’s Embassy.

The eight-man procession converged at the embassy on Sunday morning chanting solidarity songs and displaying different placards that read “Kano must not be robbed”.

“Tinubu should allow Justice to prevail in Kano” and “Keep politics out of our courts” among others.

Reacting, some chieftains of the APC under the aegis of National Coalition of APC Progressives Stakeholders described the demonstration as a cheap attempt to blackmail the judiciary, especially on a day the nation is celebrating its 63rd Independence Day anniversary.

Addressing newsmen in Abuja on Monday, the National Secretary of the coalition, Isabella Odunayo, expressed disappointment that the NNPP and the Kwankwasiyya Movement could only find eight willing members to deploy for their protest.

She said, “After failed attempts to discredit the tribunal ruling, the NNPP desperation took them to London where it sponsored a protest to blackmail the Federal Government and discredit the tribunal judgement, unknowingly to the organisers, Nigerians in the diaspora had watched clips of the jubilation that trailed the APC victory at the tribunal thereby Nigerians in London ignored the sponsored protest.