The All Progressive Congress, the party in power, has been urged by the opposition New Nigeria People’s Party, NNPP, to stop playing the victim card since there won’t be any sympathy votes cast in the upcoming general elections.
The stakeholders and supporters in Kano state remarked that the NNPP continues to conduct peaceful campaign rallies across the state while being patriotic and peace-loving individuals.
Sanusi Dawakin-Tofa, the chief campaign spokesperson for the NNPP in Kano, expressed concern in a statement over what he called the newest falsehoods and smears that the APC was supposedly spreading against the NNPP.
As people struggle with present economic distress, Dawakin-Tofa claimed that the APC’s new big scheme to employ their thugs and urchins to pose as NNPP members and inflict violence on the populace so that they may play the victim is thoughtless and sadistic.
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Part of the statement states, “We read in some quarters of the media the latest threat from the APC, accusing Kano oue party, the NNPP of violence. This is little more than playing victim card by the ruling party whose identity is synonymous to political thuggery and deadly violence against the unsuspecting members of the opposition parties in the State.
“The new attempt by the APC to deceive the electorates into believing that they are peace-loving failed at a point of planning as it remains fresh in our minds how some ranking leaders of the party and serving political office holders of the frustrated party, APC, snatched ballot box at Gama collation centre of Nasarawa local government in 2019 gubernatorial election that impose Governor Abdullahi Umar Ganduje on the people.”
“This is how they think they can win the elections since they have lost popularity with Kano masses and elites. These tactics cannot save them from imminent defeat at the polls in February and March 2023.
“The NNPP is immune to peace and will continue to expose all the sinister plans of the APC towards manipulating 2023 elections as the coming poll is a typical referendum again eight years of bad governance of Governor Ganduje-led administration in Kano.
“We are not surprised by this type of propaganda because APC has lost out already by compensating Nasiru Gawuna and Murtala Sule with the gubernatorial and deputy gubernatorial tickets for allegedly perpetrating illegal disruption of Gama collation center in 2019. Evidence of the incidence has been viral in the public domain through social media.”
