The Kano State Commissioner of Lands, Adamu Aliyu, on Thursday, reportedly threatened the judges of the Governorship Election Petition Tribunal with death.
The commissioner ar a political gathering also promised to unleash mayhem on residents of the state, one worse than what residents of neighbouring Kaduna and Zamfara are going through if the tribunal verdict did not favour the governor.
Aliyu while inferring that the judges of the tribunal may have been bribed to rule against his party the NNPP, said if the tribunal judges ruled against them in the petition before it, they may pay with their lives.
The Kano All Progressives Congress (APC), Nasiru Gawuna is challenging the election of the governor of the state, Abba Yusuf.
Mr Aliyu on Thursday while addressing members of the NNPP during a solidarity protest of the party said:
“I am sending this message to the tribunal judges, any judge that allows himself to be used and collect bribes and pass judgement that is not right, we want to tell him he must choose between his life and the bribe money he collected.
“We are promising you (our supporters), we are receiving your complaints, the votes you cast on his excellency (Governor Yusuf) will not go in vain unless we lose our lives or the Kano state will fall.
“Another message for the leaders. You have seen the conflict (banditry) in Zamfara, Kaduna, and Katsina, I swear because of this governorship seat, everyone will die. The conflict that will start in Kano will be more deadly than the ones in those states and Borno,” Mr Aliyu said.
The tribunal has not fixed a date to deliver its judgement on the petition.
