Court remands APC chieftain over call for resistance of Sanusi’s return to Kano palace

A Kano Magistrate Court has ordered the remand of a stalwart of All Progressive Congress, (APC) Abdulmajid Danbilki Kwamanda over an alleged call for resistance against the purported move by the Kano State Government to alter the current structure of Kano emirate council.

Kwamanda who was arraigned by Kano state Police Command for alleged breach of public peace was said to have promoted violence through a live program on a local radio station in Kano.

On arraignment Tuesday evening, prosecution counsel, Bar. Abdussalam Saleh Danmaidaki told the court that Kwamanda’s actions contravene Section 144 of the Kano State Penal Code Law.

However, the defendant pleaded not guilty to the one-count charge leveled against him.

In response, the defense counsel, Ibrahim Abdullahi Chedi, pleaded with the court to grant the defendant bail, assuring that he would not jump bail.

Chedi also informed the court that the defendant was suffering from an ailment, appealing for the court to exercise its discretion in favour of his client.

The defense counsel further buttressed the bail application for his client on the provisions of Sections 35 (5) and 36 of the constitution, as well as the relevant provisions of the Administration of Criminal Justice Law, ACJL 2019.

Meanwhile, the prosecution counsel, Bar. Danmaidaki, opposed the bail application.

After listened to the arguments the presiding magistrate ordered the remand of the party starlwart, Kwamanda and adjourned the matter to 29th January, 2024 for ruling on the bail application.

Prior to his arraignment, the police has detailed Kwamanda for the comment made where he called Kano residents to reject the NNPP administration to dissolve the five emirates.

Kwamanda was quoted “I am calling on Kano people to stand against government plan to dismantle our five emirates and their emirs. And any attempt to dismantle them will be met with resistance. We would make Kano ungovernable and make sure state of emergency is declared in Kano.”

The CP Gumel said the suspect, while featuring on a local radio station, and in a viral video, called on residents of the state to resist attempts by the state government to reorganize the current structure of the five Emirate Councils in the state.

The commissioner said that he had profiled the suspect and found that he had separately and severally been using the same medium to disseminate hate-speech, recorded on various social and conventional media channels, as a money-making venture.

He urged citizens, especially Kano residents, to note that those potentially harmful messages were ill-intended and cannot project anything good or promote political interests, and should, therefore, “quietly ignore the subversive content” when they come across them.

“A word is enough for the wise. There is no more space for any form of criminality in our area of supervision as competent intelligence officers have been deployed in and outside the metropolis to build confidence of the people and beef up the desired relentlesslyrelentlessly,” CP Gumel said.