The
Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Kano state has promised to invoke appropriate
constitutional provisions to go ahead with its planned political rally
scheduled to hold today in Gaya town, Gaya local government area of the state.
Addressing a press confernce on Friday in Kano, the PDP
Chairman in the state, Senator Mas'ud El-Jibril Doguwa, said if government
forces them to stop, PDP would take legal action.
Doguwa said, "If government through political
repression forces us to stop, as law abiding citizens and as law abiding
political party, PDP will have the option of appropriate legal resources."
Daily Trust on Saturday observed that the PDP scheduled a
political rally today to receive a Gubernatorial candidate of the PDM in the
last general election, Engineer Bashir Ishaq Bashir, his entire campaign
structure and majority leaders of the PDM with large contingent of APC
supporters into the PDP in Gaya local government.
According to Doguwa, the PDP had notified the police and
other security agencies about its planned rally weeks ago, but the police had
on Thursday wrote to the party, urging it to shelve the rally over alleged
security challenges.
"We discovered that that it was the APC government
in Kano state, threatened and scared by what they saw as PDP rising profile in
Nigeria and indeed Kano state, decided to give us the Kwankwasiyya treatment.
"We want remind the police commissioner that he and
his office belong to Nigerians not just to the APC. We in the PDP are
thoroughly disappointed that he (police commissioner) is losing track by
turning himself into an APC boy, a ready instrument that can be used at will by
the failing APC government in Kano.
"The Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria
in section 40 and 41 (1) and (2)A has guaranteed every Nigerians freedom of
assembly and association with other persons and or belonging to any political
party of his/her choice...," he said.
When contacted, the Police Public Relations
Officer, SP Magaji Musa Majia, said the PDP rally was suspended because
it coincided with security agencies joint operation scheduled to hold today
around Wudil area.
Majia said, "We suspended all political rally in the
area. The APC Chairman in Gaya local government, Alhaji Sani Abubakar and his
PDP counterpart, Alhaji Ibrahim Ahmed Jobe have been notified by the police.
They will re-apply after our operation and I can assure you, we will give them
permission."
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