The Gubernatorial aspirant of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Kano state and also member of the House of Representatives, Honourable Sha’aban Ibrahim Sharada is reported to have escaped assassination plot at the party primary Congress in the State.
Mr Sha’aban in a statement stated that “I narrowly escaped an assassination attempt, during our party Gubernatorial primary election that took place today in Kano”.
According to him “minutes to the commencement of the exercise, I was cautioned by an security personal not come to the venue of the election and at the same time, I received a text message from the primary election committee chairman in person of Senator Tijjani Kaura who urged me to be in the venue to start the election”.
“To my surprise, the security personnel deployed from Abuja were asked to step down from escorting me to the election venue”.
He stated that “In addition to this discovery, another person informed me of a rumor circulating on the issue of my assassination all in an attempt to deter me from becoming the APC flag bear. I took the required safety measures and sneaked into the election venue, thanks to Allah (SWT)’.
Mr Shaaban who is the House of Representatives member from Kano Municipal and also chairman of house committee on National Second Intelligence explained that “In my manifestation speech, I drew the attention of the entire stakeholders on the plans by the Kano State Government to enforce an anointed candidate to our party delegates by not allowing them to exercise their constitutional right to vote their prefered candidate”.
He alleged that , no action was taken, while the exercise continues, there were further plans to use thugs and end my life on my exit from the venue.
“Later, I equally received another intel that those thugs had already attacked, killed and injured many of my supporters and that prompted me to quickly leave the venue and proceed to the hospital where they were receiving medical attention.
“Thus; for me the soul of one person is more valuable than to become a Governor ”.
The lawmaker also called on the security agencies and the APC to seriously investigate and punish the perpetrators and also to immediately nullify the so-called primary election that was marred with a lot of irregularities, vote buying and intimidation, this did not reflect the ideal of our great party and true democracy.
Culled from Prime Time News
