 Thanks for staying with us. We're very thankful that we are able to have this moment. We are now going to our second hot topic for today, and that is that the APC party leaked Memo acts Nigerian police to arrest 16 notable persons in Kanu. Immediately, Supreme Court declares Gawuna as governor. To discuss this, we have Mohammed Abulahi here joining us. Good morning and welcome to the program. Mohammed. Good morning Nigerians. Always my pleasure. Okay. This was disturbing when we saw it. APC in a leaked Memo acts Nigerian police to arrest 16 notable persons in Kanu. We also saw in that report that they even said immediately the Supreme Court declares Gawuna as governor. They were so sure. And then they also told the police that they were going to send names of the courts that they were going to take these people to and so many other things that scared us thinking about how compromised maybe judicial system is. But let's just start with the comment on the fact that a party singled out 16 people who they felt were noisemakers in court to arrest. Yeah, it's quite it's quite unfortunate. And these are some of the things that have continuously plucked our, you know, our democracy seriously. You know, where we have particularly people at the hems of affairs, people who are in power, who takes them, who take themselves to be all in all, they tend to control the judiciary, who are supposed to be independent, quote, unquote, they tend to be controlling, I mean, the police, I mean, the military, who are supposed to be ordinarily in terms of having who are supposed to be ordinarily serving, I mean, the citizenry. So it's quite unfortunate, like I said earlier, that in fact, what the I mean, if that big memo is actually true is that, you know, the APC in Karno were already preempting the, they were like 100% sure that their governorship candidates, I mean, the gubernatorial candidates will be declared winner at the Supreme Court, which is shocking, because, you know, judgment is not supposed to be leaked, is not supposed to be preempted until it is delivered. Yeah, so but all I will say is that perhaps this bit of crisis was averted by what eventually became the decision of the court, because I just want, I would have imagined, or one would have imagined what would have been the result of, I mean, the decision if it was as planned by the, I mean, by the willing party, which is really unimaginable, because I was born in Karno, I understand Karno politics very well, is a very, very volatile state in terms of politics. Little think can spark a lot of conflict crisis here and there. But really, like I said earlier, it's really unfortunate that the party, I mean, and it's not just the APC, seriously, I mean, it's all across board, if we were to be very truthful to ourselves, to be very sincere to ourselves, it's all across board that parties in charge in Nigeria, tend to see themselves as all in all controlling every other thing, even things that are supposed to be very, very independent, even things that are supposed to be in servitude to the citizens, it's quite shocking and appalling. And I think we need to do better as a country, you know, that to ensure that this democracy starts all. Yeah, because this 2023, the slogan was go to court. That's what everybody was talking about now, because it seemed as if, and people were saying it's possible because they know that the courts will grant them the kind of judgment that they are expecting. In fact, let me quote that letter according to Sahara reporters, because this is not from us, it's from Sahara reporters. On behalf of the Kano State APC Chairman, we request that the individuals listed in the table below be traced and arrested immediately after the Supreme Court's verdict on Friday, January 12th, 2024, which will declare Dr. Nassir Yusuf Gawuna as winner. Now, this is another disturbing fact. We also request that your department shoot as a matter of urgency, file charges, and accuse them of using the social media in the uttering on guarded statements capable of promoting violence and inciting people against the APC government. So they are telling the police what to accuse these people of. Not really that these people have done this, but this is what they should be accused of after their man is sworn in or as one the verdict, one the judgment. This is really disturbing. Yes, it's really disturbing. It's what we've been talking about, like we said. Parties in charge tend to have it, I mean, do all in all. They just want to be in charge whether truthfully or not. For instance, even propaganda which haunted, which is a very popular phrase in Nigeria, you know, and in fact, these are some of the reasons we are, if you allow us to address a bit, people are skeptical about state police, state apparatuses of I mean, the military because people are really skeptical that even though despite our security challenges, the insecurities there and there, if you have full fledged police or even the military armed with the state government, they will use it to which haunt their opponents, which is not far from the truth, you know. So it's quite disturbing. It's quite very, very disturbing. And the shocking thing is that I wouldn't want to talk on behalf of the APC or even the police, but with happening across Nigeria in terms, I mean, when what has happened, maybe historically, it was very, very possible that if the judgment had gone, I mean, to the APC's plan, the police perhaps might have, you know, might have taken that action. Yeah, it's quite possible that you find this action, I mean, that the APC in Kano were asking the police to they might have possibly taken that action because, you know, those guys will be empowered then and it will be that, like I said, the force, the police force, which is supposed to serve the people generally who now are tilt towards, I mean, the ruling entity, which is sad, you know. So we need to go beyond this. I mean, talking to the police, particularly now, we need to understand that first and foremost is to serve the people before even the elite. If we have that kind of mindset, whatever, I mean, the elite or even the government accuses people with, it should be done, I mean, with facts and not just propaganda and not just because they are opponent and so on and so forth or opposition, you know, we need to do better. Well, we can't keep running away from state police because the more we drag it, we know that the more states are trying to be autonomous when it comes to that. You see, we have the amotecone here in the southwest. We had the eastern security network in the east that have been branded in one kind of way. Anyway, that was unfortunate. We have the Hezbollah even in the north where we have found that some of the laws that they have are not the same with the constitution of Nigeria even. So if we keep dragging this, we'll still keep getting this kind of things. And why not we just make it legal and know that this police, state police is going to be answerable to the federal police or the federal whatever. And we make sure that they are sticking to the same laws and not having their own laws that will favor them in one section of the country and not others. Well, it is because you mentioned the fact that we are skeptical about state police. But no matter how we see it, it will come to pass one day. Otherwise, we'll be taking the laws into our hands. But as it is, this is how we have to wrap it up. I wish we had more time. Thank you so much, Abdulahi, for coming on the program this morning. Thank you very much. My pleasure. I don't know whether you celebrate valentines, but happy valentines are all the same. Okay. We've been talking with Mohammed Abdulahi, his social commentator. And this is where we're going to draw the curtain on today's edition of the program. We'd like to thank you so much for being a part of this show this morning. Happy valentines to you and let it be a time for solidifying relationships rather than breaking them up. And do not expect too much. The times are hard as it is. Happy valentines and bye. Let's do it again tomorrow.