No fewer than 40 particular detectives from the Inspector Normal of Police (IGP) Kayode Egbedokun, monitoring staff have intensified seek for the arrest of Governor Abba Kabir Yusuf’s spokesperson, Sanusi Bature Dawakin-Tofa.
The IGP males who have been deployed from Abuja to arrest Bature on the instruction of performing chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC) Dr. Abdullahi Umar Ganduje have been stated to have been lodged at Tahir Company Palace within the final two weeks to execute the mandate.
Ganduje had petitioned the IGP over the controversy surrounding his suspension from his Ganduje ward in Dawakin-Tofa native authorities of the state, accusing the governor’s spokesperson who’s from his constituency of orchestrating the political downfalls.
Household sources who spoke to newsmen yesterday acknowledged that the staff of detectives in plain garments have been observed mounting surveillance across the residence of Bature on Monday as a part of floor strikes to hold out their project.
One of many family members, who pleaded to stay nameless for safety causes, lamented that the key police ransacked the residence for greater than 5 instances, scaring members of Bature’s household, together with the spouse and youngsters, in addition to creating apprehension within the neighbourhood.
The IGP particular drive has mounted a dragnet for Sanusi Bature’s arrest within the final two weeks regardless of an order of the courtroom restraining the IGP, DSS, CP Kano and different safety businesses from arresting and or harassing the governor’s spokesperson.
Justice Amina Adamu Aliyu of Kano State Excessive Courtroom on Thursday granted an exparte utility, stopping additional manhunt of Sanusi Bature Dawakin-Tofa pending the listening to and willpower of substantive matter on his elementary rights slated for twenty second January, 2025.
The animosity between Bature and Ganduje dates again 9 years, particularly in 2015, when Ganduje, as governor-elect, reportedly ordered Bature’s arrest over his opposition through the gubernatorial election.
Within the newest harassment, Ganduje was stated to have petitioned the IGP , accusing Bature of being the mind behind his suspension by the APC Ganduje ward executives few months in the past.
Consequently, a staff of 40 law enforcement officials from the IGP Monitoring Unit was reportedly mobilised to Kano with the only real goal of apprehending the governor’s spokesperson.
