Kano: I didnāt reach agreement with Tinubu on Supreme Court ruling ā Kwankwaso
Presidential candidate of the New Nigeria Peopleās Party in the last general elections, Senator Rabiu Musa Kwankwaso, says he did not reach an agreement with President Bola Tinubu or anyone concerning the outcome of the Supreme Court verdict on the Kano State governorship election tussle.
Kwankwaso stated this while responding to the allegation that he had reached an agreement with Tinubu before the judgment.
Supreme Court, on Friday, affirmed the NNPPās Abba Kabir Yusuf as the duly elected governor of Kano after series of litigations.
Kwankwaso l BBC Hausa, āWhat happened at the Supreme Court is a lesson for all of us. I know that I mean well for everyone. Throughout the period, I have not done anything to anyone. And anybody would reap what he sows. To the best of my knowledge, I have not reached an agreement with anybody.
āAll I know is that President Bola Ahmed Tinubu is my contemporary. I joined politics at the same time as him in SDP. Then he was a senator and I was serving as the deputy speaker of the House of Representatives. In 1999, he was my colleague as the governor of Lagos State.
āWe founded the APC together and we participated fully in the struggles which followed up. People should know that a lie has a short life. Despite the machinations those people staged, the judges have done what is right.
āThere is no problem. They have their party; we have our own. We will work together where necessary. On the issue of joining the government, only time can tell.ā
The NNPP leader also said he would not lord it over the Kano State governor, noting that he could only advise him.
He said, āKabir Yusuf is the governor. We can only advise. Even if he were a biological son, I canāt rule over him. I have given him pieces of advice even before the government came in. There are thousands of people like me. I canāt do it alone. When a governor or a president does well, the credit goes to him. If he does otherwise, the blame is directed at him.
āPeople misunderstand this. When I was a governor, I would pick suggestions kept by people even in dustbins. The same is on radio stations and newspapers. For everything has an appointed time. Those who succeed should be allowed to prove their worth.
āThere were errors with the previous judgment, but the Supreme Court undid what the lower courts did. If it were in other climes, those who delivered the judgments in the lower courts would quit their jobs.ā
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