Mustapha Kwankwaso demands apology from Kano official within 48 hours
By the AFREEQUE newsroom, based on Leadership
Mustapha Kwankwaso gives Kano’s new information commissioner, Sanusi Bature Dawakin Tofa, 48 hours to withdraw defamatory remarks and issue a public apology, or face legal action. According to a statement issued on Tuesday, the drug-related accusations made during a televised programme are false and malicious.
Mustapha Rabiu Kwankwaso, former commissioner for youth and sports in Kano State, northern Nigeria, has given 48 hours to Sanusi Bature Dawakin Tofa, the state’s new commissioner for information, to withdraw remarks judged defamatory and issue a public apology, failing which he will take legal action. He announced this in a statement issued on Tuesday morning.
The remarks in question were made during the television programme Gabon Talk Show. A trailer shared on social media showed Bature referring to alleged drug problems of Mustapha, son of former Kano governor and senator Rabiu Musa Kwankwaso, and claiming that the Kiru rehabilitation institute had been created because of those problems. Bature also suggested that the senator might regret his son’s candidacy as running mate to the Nigeria Democratic Congress (NDC).
Mustapha Kwankwaso describes the accusations as "false, malicious and deliberately intended to assassinate my character". He calls it "historically impossible" that the Kiru institute was created for his personal situation: he states it was founded during his father’s second term, while he was living in Dubai, as "a visionary state policy" for the rehabilitation of young people. He also rejects allegations that his father distrusts him over Skyline University, Mewar University or his farm, and cites his rice-milling business.
