Nana Sani-Kazaure, a member of the Obi-Datty Presidential Campaign Organization, has accused Kaduna State Governor Nasir El-Rufai of intimidating Obi’s supporters during their weekend one million-man march.
According to Anaedoonline.ng, Nana made the charge on Monday during an interview with Arise TV.
She claims that Governor El-Rufai dispatched police to derail the planned demonstration for Peter Obi, the Labour Party’s presidential candidate.
Sani-Kazaure pointed out that there was no justification for stopping the march in Kaduna while other states held peaceful protests.
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As a result of years of misrule by the APC and PDP governments, Northern Nigeria, which is afflicted with insecurity, underdevelopment, and internal displacement, has become very interested in Obi’s campaign, she continued.
“The march in Kaduna was truncated by the appearance of the police officers sent by the Kaduna state government. The presence of the police was there to put a chink in the armour,” she said.
“Governor El-Rufai said that we wouldn’t be able to garner even 200 people not to talk of a million and so it begs the question why would you have to have police? Why would it (the march) be interrupted?
“It begs the question why are they rattled by people that they say are just on social media or that there is no following or there’s no garnering of people wanting this particular candidacy for the presidency, why are they rattled by us, why is there a certain feeling that they are threatened?
“Trust and believe that at a later date people will converge, people will still March, so far Port Harcourt, Calabar and even Nasarawa state next door we’ve had peaceful marches so I see no reason why it had to be interrupted yesterday by the Kaduna state government, it means that they have taken note of us and our numbers are growing
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“There’s a lot of interest in northern Nigeria as regards the Obi-Datty movement, the north has been rife with a plethora of issues that arise in security, under-development, the issues of education, even the issues of having internally displaced people and the economy is coming to a grinding halt and so yes the north is very very interested in the narrative of change, of having a new order take over.
“The labour party movement and the Obi-Datty movement, as far as I know, is a clarion call, Nigerians are tired and the north is not exempt from being tired, under-development is glaring and people want a change. So, yes, we’re already making those inroads”
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