From AKIN ALOFETEKUN, Minna and DESMOND MGBOH, Kano
Friday, April 22, 2011

Presidential candidate of the Congress for Progressive Change (CPC), General Muhammadu Buhari (retd) was yesterday prevented from entering Suleja by security agents.
The motorcade of the former military leader was stopped at Madalla and he was told he could not proceed to Suleja.
Buhari was on his way to Suleja to pay a condolence over the penultimate Friday bomb blast that claimed the lives of some 13 persons.

Chairman of the CPC in Niger State, Alhaji Shuaibu Umar told Daily Sun in Minna that the police mounted a roadblock between Madalla and Diko junction where Buhari was turned back.

Police Public Relations Officer in Niger State, ASP Richard Adamu Oguche, said the security situation in Niger State did not permit allowing Buhari entry into any part of the state. He described the CPC candidate as a free citizen of the country but said the security situation would not allow such a visit to Niger State at the very moment.

Meanwhile, the Kano State Police Command has imposed a ban on all political rallies and political gatherings in the state until after the conduct of the gubernatorial elections, saying any political party that goes against the ban will be prosecuted according to the law. The state police commissioner, Mr. Dan’azumi Doma, made this disclosure at a press briefing in Kano yesterday, adding that they were determined to implement the directive to the letter.

The position of the police may not be unconnected with the rumour that the CPC presidential candidate, General Buhari (retd) may be visiting the state to raise the hand of General Jafaru Isa, the recently court-declared gubernatorial candidate of the party in the state. Doma disclosed that over 100 suspects had been arrested and interrogated in connection with the poll violence in the state, adding that the suspects had been charged to court, which had remanded some of them in prison custody.

He said the police and the rest of the security agencies were determined to probe deep to identify and apprehend the sponsors of the dastardly act, noting that no matter how highly placed, anybody found wanting would be prosecuted along with their agents and conspirators. He warned that the act of brigandage and hooliganism must not be allowed to continue as security agencies were ready to deal with hooligans and mischief makers in the state.

He equally warned rumour-mongers and alarmists to desist from spreading rumour capable of escalating tension in the state. Besides, he cautioned parents and guardians to ensure that their children and wards did not allow themselves to be used to foment trouble by mischief-makers.

vladimiros:

he should just go retire full time

he has failed enough

jonabee:

Buhari, A Mere Local champion & Religious fanatical bigot. You murgered democracy at its embryonic stage. You cannot enjoy what you failed to institute. Come out a million times you continue to lose out. Again go to court a thousand times on frivolous issues and you will keep losing.

It is the dawn of the new generation. Get that into your hard scoll [color=#770077][/color].

jonabee:

. . . . . .Buhari. . . . . .
You murgered democracy at its embryonic stage. You cannot enjoy what you terminated AND failed to institute.
Come out billion times, you continue to lose out.
Again go to court a million times on frivolous issues and you will keep losing.

It is the dawn of the new generation.
Get that into your empty hard skull [color=#770077][/color].

juman:

This is a serious matter. A former head of state preventing from entering Suleja to avoid causing problems to the authority.

General need to take steps with cautions.

Today is Friday. The stakeholders in the North need to control their people. The violence is becoming too much.

Even we that are muslims but not Hausa are tired of these too many violence.I as a muslim, personally prefer to avoid even muslims that will give me too much unnecessary troubles. We have one life to live.

If trouble countinue there will be a point that the country will certainly break anyway.

abdul4hire:

So ironic, the comments of many on this  thread is soo hypocritical, they claim to hate religious extremism, tribalism, but their words depict these same things, entertaining severe hatred,presenting unfounded allegations,do you not realize that this is a public forum. I appeal to you, if its not constructive pls shelve it. Do not incite unnecessary hate, just because u waanna nairapost!!  

Kenyy:

Majority of Northerners know their common enemies while the same can hardly be said of my Southern Educated Illiterates; that is why the best they could bring forward was a Weak Woman President.

EzeUche__:

Yet they kill innocent Southerners!