The Kano State Police authorities have arrested a large number of suspected political thugs, allegedly hired by some political actors to disrupt the Saturday February 3 House of Assembly re-run elections in the State.
The State Commissioner of Police, Muhammad Husseini Gumel, who disclosed this at an interactive session with the media, said most of the suspected thugs were arrested in Kunchi/Tsanyanwa, one of the areas where the re-run elections was scheduled to take place in the State.
Alhaji Gumel said that some of the arrested thugs have confessed to being hirelings of one of the contestants in the elections.
As a result of the violence, disruption of electoral process and the snatching and abduction of electoral materials and some Independent National Electoral Commission INEC officials, the elections were suspended in all the 10 polling units, where elections were supposed to be conducted in Kunchi/ Tsanyanwa.
The New Nigeria Peoples Party, NNPP, on Saturday ,accused its arch rival the All Progress Congress APC of being behind the orgy of violence and attacks on innocent voters during the re run exercise.
The NNPP in a statement issued by its Kano State Chairman Dr Hashim Suleiman Dungurawa, said it is dismayed by the sporadic attacks on unsuspecting voters by APC hired thugs ,with the aim of disenfranchising them.
“We sighted the deployment of thousands of thugs on Friday February 2 by the APC for the purpose of disrupting the election process on Saturday,.” Dr Dungurawa alleged.
The Chairman Kano NNPP , however appreciated the efforts of the state police authorities and other security agencies in protecting the lives and property of innocent residents and voters.
As at the time of reporting on Sunday February 4 ,the APC was yet to officially respond to its alleged involvement in the disruption of the elections.
Meanwhile ,the INEC has declared the NNPP as winner in the two state Constituencies of Kura/ GaruMalam and Rimi Ga do/ Tofa rerun which held on Saturday,.
.The electoral umpire said the fate of Kunchi/ Tsanyawa will be made known later.
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