…Says, He Was Never Convicted On Alleged 2023 Political Violence
In another fresh salvo by the former House leader, Hon. Alhassan Ado Doguwa (APC, Kano) directed at the member representing Kiru/Bebeji federal Constituency of Kano State, Hon. Abdulmumini Jibrin (NNPP, Kano), he reminded the lawmaker that, he had allegedly sponsored an attack on Senator Rabiu Musa Kwankwaso and Governor Abba Kabir Yusuf.
Doguwa in a statement on Thursday said the attack which was allegedly orchestrated by Jibrin and his supporters during a PDP campaign rally by Kwankwaso left seven (7) members of the party dead, several others injured, and 25 cars belonging to Kwankwaso’s supporters burnt down.
He stated, “Allegations of the killing of seven supporters of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) are still hanging on Jibrin when he purportedly launched brutal attacks on the supporters of Kwankwaso and Abba Kabir Yusuf (Abba Gida Gida), who was then the governorship candidate of the PDP during a campaign to Bebeji through Kofa town.
“I swear in the name of Allah that Jibrin was alleged to have been the mastermind of that deadly and fatal attack campaign rally. Senator Kwankwaso was live on the rally as the then leader of the PDP in Kano State. To this effect, I boldly state that Senator Rabiu Musa Kwankwaso is my eyewitness to this alleged political brigandage by Jibrin in 2019.
“This was during the 2019 general elections campaign. Allah is my witness; my erstwhile friend Kwankwaso and the entire people of Kano State are my living witnesses to this unfortunate acts of Jibrin in his bid to win a 2 LGA election, and still could not win even with his alleged gruesome attacks; he helplessly lost out to the PDP candidate of Kwankwaso. Kwankwaso dealt with him at polls, leaving him lingering on the streets.
“In fact, he was arrested alongside 70 of his partners in crime by the police. This was reported by all media outfits, quoting the then spokesperson of the Kano Police Command, Abdallahi Haruna Kiyawa.
“And till today, this case of gruesome murder and arson has not been conclusively investigated. Jibrin, you are a terror, an emperor of failure and an electoral terrorist in today’s Kano politics, of which you sincerely know you are even an alien.
“My friend Kwankwaso was a tragic victim of Abdulmumini Jibrin’s planned political assassination. I challenged the duo of them, and of course, Rt. Hon. Ali Madaki, the Deputy Minority Leader of the 10th House of Representatives, refutes this”.
Rep. Doguwa also dismissed Jibrin’s allegations that, he always won his elections by force saying that, it it is true, then how did win the two state assembly seats in Doguwa/Tundun Wada LGAs on March 18 and also delivered them to the APC in the Gubernatorial elections when he was under house arrest by a court order that stopped him from going even near his federal constituency.
The lawmaker added, “For the umpteenth time, I challenged Jibrin to bring out those bombshells that he claimed could lead to my expulsion from my party for life and death…
“He should instead behave himself before Sen. Kwankwaso, Governor Abba, and Hon. Aliyu Sani Madaki begins to dust their case files to sue him in court for allegedly leading teams of political thugs to assassinate them at Kofa village while going on a lawful campaign rally in 2019.
“I leave the rest of Jibrin’s concoctions and lies to the court of public opinion and the media to analyse”.
Speaking of the political crisis after the 2023 elections, Doguwa said, he was not found guilty by any Court of law and has been declared innocent.
He said, “Of course, by the most straightforward rudimentary principle of our legal system, an accused person within the Nigerian context of the administration of criminal justice remains innocent until he is proven guilty by a competent court of law.
“It’s pretty clear now and on records that I have been cleared. Three courts of competent jurisdiction’s judgements declared me innocent of the alleged mischievous allegations against my innocent self.
“A Federal High Court in Abuja delivered the recent and most exemplary judgement on enforcing my fundamental human rights as a free Nigerian citizen.
“It may interest Jibrin and his cohorts to know that that judgement even ordered the Kano State government and the Governor to pay me a cost of N25m as damages for unnecessarily harassing me and defaming my innocent character.
While awaiting the so-called bombshell Jibrin threatened to drop against me, which he said would lead to my expulsion from the All Progressives Congress (APC), the largest political party in Africa and my party for life, he veered off. Jibrin derailed into hallucinations, concoctions and black lies.
“As we all know, the genesis of these verbal altercations started when Jibrin, a political parasite and an electoral terrorist, warned me against responding to his “fictitious godfather”, Senator Rabiu Musa Kwankwaso, who disparaged the leadership of the APC and called us “Banzaye”, A Hausa word for stupid people, in a widely circulated video clip.
“Yes, as the elders in Kano and beyond said while urging me to drop the media tussle, Jibrin is a toddler in the country’s political landscape.
“I agree with you all, sirs, but I’m sorry, I have to respond to the issue of the alleged violence and crisis during the last general elections at the collation centre of my federal constituency in Kano.
“It was a naked political plot and baseless machinations designed to thwart the will of Allah SWT and the wishes of the electorate of T/Wada/ Doguwa Federal Constituency of Kano State, who have always overwhelmingly voted for me”.
