Buhari group blames Jonathan, PDP for Kano riots

 The Buhari Vanguard has blamed President Goodluck Jonathan and the Peoples Democratic Party for the Kano riots that greeted the declaration of Sanusi Lamido Sanusi as the new emir of the ancient city.

Chairman of the group, Jasper Azuatalam, said this in Abuja on Monday.

Azuatalam said it was apparent that the PDP-led government had been indirectly inciting violence, especially in the Northern part of the country.

According to him, while the kingmakers and traditional rulers in Kano were busy deliberating and observing all traditional rituals to choose their new Emir, the PDP went ahead to congratulate one of the contenders who eventually lost.

He said, “It is true that the congratulatory message sent by the Peoples Democratic Party to the eldest son of the late Emir, Alhaji Sanusi Lamido Ado Bayero, gave the people of Kano and Nigerians at large the impression that the late Emir’s son was declared the Emir of Kano.

“Those who got and believed the news from PDP were perplexed when the governor of Kano State announced Sanusi Lamido Sanusi as the next Emir of Kano.

“This obviously led to the rioting as many people believed that the son of the late Emir was substituted for Sanusi Lamido Sanusi following the PDP’s misleading congratulatory message.

“The apology tendered by the PDP and the retraction of the mischievous congratulatory message could not save the situation as medicine has little or no good to do with a dead man other than preserving the corpse.”

Members of the group said they were of the view that the whole affair was a ‘deliberate, calculated and conscious’ attempt by the ruling party to incite violence in Kano and to discredit the process which led to the emergence of Lamido as the new Emir of Kano.

The group noted that the traditional institution should not be desecrated.

It accused the PDP of denigrating the nation’s democracy and that it has now set its eyes on the traditional institution.

While congratulating the new Emir of Kano on his appointment, the group advised all well-meaning Kano residents to ignore the antics of the PDP.



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