They also urged the UN not to accede to the petition submitted by Governor Abba Yusuf and his New Nigerian People’s Party.
The PUNCH reported on Wednesday that the NNPP petitioned the European Union, the British High Commission, the Canadian Embassy, the United Nations and the Economic Community of West African States among others over the Court of Appeal’s judgment that upheld Yusuf’s sacking as the state governor.
While presenting a copy of the petition at the EU Secretariat, the National Auditor of the NNPP, Ladipo Johnson, had lamented that moves were being made to truncate the will of the majority of Kano electorate who voted for Yusuf on March 18.
But Kano APC claimed it was a ploy by the NNPP to buy sympathy of the international community after it allegedly failed in its attempt to harass the judiciary into giving judgment in its favour.
Addressing newsmen shortly after submitting their petition, leader of the APC protesters, Umar Ladiyo, appealed to the UN to allow the rule of law to prevail in Kano.
He said, “We are also here to appeal to the UN not to allow the NNPP to drag it into the mud. We are in the know that Governor Abba Yusuf and the NNPP sympathisers have been running from pillar to post to put pressure on the international community to intervene in the democratic process in Nigeria.
“We are here to say let the rule of law prevail. Allow the court to exercise their rights. We are here to tell the UN that they should not be carried away by the activities of the NNPP government in Kano, Nigeria is a sovereign nation with laws and regulations. It has Constitution and electoral laws.
“Every country is bound by its laws and United Nations as a defender and promoter of democracy in the world. Therefore we are thinking UN should allow Nigerian judiciary to do its work accordingly.
“We are appealing to the UN not to be carried away. They should not listen to those unwarranted remarks from other political parties. We are asking the United Nations to put eye in this process because we are true believers of democracy and we have confidence in the court of law.”
