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Ibrahim Shuaibu in Kano
Kano State Governor, Dr. Abdullahi Ganduje, came under more pressure at the weekend to recant on the creation of four new emirates in Kano by repealing the law giving legal backing to the balkanisation of the Kano Emirate.
A non-partisan group of citizens from all professions and backgrounds, from the state, under the aegis of Advocates for United Kano, in a statement obtained by THISDAY at the weekend, urged the governor to either repeal the law, immediately, or subject the processes to popular will.
The coalition, comprising dignitaries such as the defunct National Republican Convention (NRC) candidate in the annulled June 12, 1993 presidential election, Alhaji Bashir Othman Tofa; former House of Representatives Speaker, Hon. Umaru Ghali Na’Abba; Prof. Jibrin Ibrahim and Malam Abba Dabo, accused the governor of trying to…
Source: Thisday Newspaper