CUPP alleges fresh threat to dethrone Sultan, Kano emir | Nairalaw

For refusing to mobilise their subjects for this weekend’s
supplementary gubernatorial elections in Sokoto and Kano States,
the Coalition of United Political Parties (CUPP) alleged that the
ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) has hatched plan to dethrone
the Sultan of Sokoto and Emir of Kano, if the party triumphs in the
election.

Part of the plan, according to the coalition, was to instigate
the state Houses of Assembly to step up a panel to indict them of
corruption and force them out of office using presidential
support.

CUPP in a statement said the grouse of APC against the monarchs
was their refusal to galvanise support for the party’s candidates
in Sokoto and Kano States.

“Leaders of APC are accusing the monarchs of allegedly taking
side with the Peoples Democratic Party and hence they have hatched
a plot that if the traditional rulers do not help them to win the
people’s support and
they succeed to manipulate the election, that they will dethrone
the respected traditional rulers from the thrones of their
forefathers,” the statement said.

CUPP warned that any attempt to descreate the two ancient
traditional institutions would be an invitation to anarchy.

“We are warning the APC leaders to back out of this … for the
good and stability of the entire country.

“The move to militarise Sokoto and write figures from selected
polling units has been perfected like they did in Rivers State and
we must stand up against that.

“We called on the people of Kano and Sokoto States to not just
vote, but vote and defend their votes for their future and the
preservation of the stools of their forefathers,” the opposition
coalition added.