New Nigeria People’s Party (NNPP) on Wednesday accused the secret police of working in concert with Kano state governor, Dr. Abdullahi Umar Ganduje to subvert next Saturday’s governorship elections in the state.
Addressing newsmen in Kano, Dr. Bappa Abdullahi Bichi who spoke on behalf of the senior stakeholders of the party alleged that the state Director of DSS in Kano, Mr. Mohammed Alhassan as the arrow head of the plot.
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Abdullahi Bichi explained that Mr. Mohammed Alhassan was due to have retired from the service but was illegally retained to execute hatchet job for his long time friend.
Bichi said:
We have written to Mr. President. We have writtewn to the DG of DSS. We have written to all heads of security agencies and Service Chiefs, drawing attention to this anomaly. No officer is indispensable. The Director has outlived his service year by over a year. His continuous stay in Service is both illegal and immoral. Moreso, he is being kept with the ulterior motive of doing a very unpatriotic hatchet job of subverting the will of the people of Kano State. He is being kept to rig election. He is being kept to undermine democracy.
The former Executive Director of TETFUND further alleged that,
One of the Chief architect that anchored the subversion of the will of the Kano people in 2019 is the long-term ally and the closest family-friend of the Ganduje family, who, at the request of Ganduje was posted to Kano as the DSS Director of Kano State in 2017. His relationship with Ganduje started way back in the early 90s when Ganduge was Sole Administrator of Gwagwalada Area Council in the FCT and Mr. Alasan was then incharge of SSS at the same Local Government.
He disclosed that:
Mr. Ganduje officially requested that Mr. Alasan be posted to Kano and even when all State Directors have been redeployed to other states, Mr. Alasan has been kept in Kano for over half a decade without redeployment. We are even more concerned that over a year ago, Mr. Alasan was due to retire from the Service and proceed on retirement but Mr. Ganduje wrote officially, again, to the Director General of DSS, pleading that Mr. Alasan be retained in the Service and be kept in Kano until after the 2023 general elections.
We asked the question why?
Bichi alleged that “tactical team of DSS who are already in Kano for a dirty job ,and are being kept in hotels and safe houses within the state.
He declared that “the 2023 Gubernatorial elections is contest between the NNPP and the DSS which have made it a national project deploying everything at its disposal to steal people’s mandate”
He said that DSS in Kano under the leadership of Mohammed Alhassan have compromised their oath of service, and we have equally drawn the attention of other sister Agencies to their plot.”
Bichi appealed:
Mr. President to intervene and cause the DG of DSS to allow Mr. Alasan to proceed on his retirement. He ought to have retired 15 months ago! For crying out loud, why are you keeping him? Is he the only person in the Service? Why are you stifling the growth of others officers by retaining someone who ought to have retired?
The NNPP stalwart said
Let it be on record, that the NNPP in Kano State and indeed the NNPP in Nigeria will not allow the people’s mandate to be stolen again. We will do everything legitimate to protect our votes, our mandates and secure our people and our State. This is the last time we will be writing on this matter. We will not write on this matter again.
