A one-million man march which was supposed to be held on the streets of Kano in support of General Muhammadu Buhari, the All Progressives Congress (APC) presidential aspirant was over the weekend banned by the police.
According to Daily Trust, the march, which was organised by the Buhari Youth Organisation (BYO) for supporters to march across the city in solidarity with Buhari, was stopped few hours before the event was scheduled to be held.
The event had received approval by the commissioner of police for a political summit and a road march from the Sani Abacha Stadium to the Buhari campaign office along Maiduguri Road.
But hours before the event, the approval was withdrawn following a directive from the deputy inspector general of police at the Department of Operations, Force Headquarters, Abuja, who said he was following orders from above.
The directive from the police command read in part: “You can only hold the summit within the Sani Abacha Indoor Stadium on same date. The command regrets the inconveniences this might cause
Engr Garba Umar, the BYO northwest zonal coordinator, said: “To our surprise they told us that we should not march out so we decided to march into this venue (Sani Abacha Stadium). Initially, they asked us to shift the march to Monday and we told them no because we wanted to hold it on Saturday but they said we had to shift it today (Sunday). They said it was a directive from above”.
Meanwhile, hundreds of Arewa leaders have alleged that President Goodluck Jonathan offered them huge sums of money in foreign currency two weeks ago. The leaders who received Kano state governor, Rabiu Kwankwaso, in Lagos yesterday, said they rejected hundreds of thousands of dollars which was offered to them by President Jonathan.
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