Kano: Civil Society Group Mobilizes Lawyers To Defend Gawuna In Supreme Court

No fewer than 500 private legal practitioners have volunteered to defend the All Progressives Congress governorship candidate in Kano State, Nasir Gawuna, at the Supreme Court. The lawyers, under the aegis of the Guardians of Democracy and Rule of Law, said the move is to save Nigeria’s democracy from vote riggers and serial election fraudsters. […]

No fewer than 500 private legal practitioners have volunteered to defend the All Progressives Congress governorship candidate in Kano State, Nasir Gawuna, at the Supreme Court.

The lawyers, under the aegis of the Guardians of Democracy and Rule of Law, said the move is to save Nigeria’s democracy from vote riggers and serial election fraudsters.

Having secured victories at the governorship election petition tribunal and Appeal Court, the legal practitioners expressed confidence that Gawuna will again emerge at the Supreme Court.

They made this known at a press conference on Tuesday through their spokesman, Barr. Joseph E. Onwudiwe.

“Nigerians have observed keenly the situation unfolding in Kano state regarding the March 18 Governorship election. As a group saddled with the onerous responsibility of safeguarding our democratic ethos and values, we are no longer comfortable with the unwarranted attacks on the judiciary and moves to blackmail the Court into giving backing to wanton electoral malfeasance and vote heist,” the statement said.

“We will no longer fold our arms as lawyers and watch the judiciary be continuously harangued, and the temple of Justice desecrated by a group of people who failed to perfect an electoral heist and inflate their votes by over 165,000 in a desperate bid to win the March 18 2023 Kano state governorship election at all cost.

“It is on the above premise that we wish to salute the courage and sound reasoning that resonated in the judgements of the tribunal and the Court of Appeal which dispensed justice by allowing the overwhelming yearnings and aspirations of the majority of Kano citizens, as expressed in the valid number of votes cast in the March 18 Kano Governorship election, to stand,” the statement said.