A former Kano State Commissioner for Rural and Community Development, Alhaji Illayasu Kwankwaso,has been declared wanted by the state police command for his alleged involvement in the burning and destruction of election materials at Kauran Mata Ward in Madobi Local Government Area, during last Saturday’s elections.

Addressing newsmen at the Police Command headquarters in Bompai, while parading suspects arrested in connection with electoral violence on Tuesday, Commissioner of Police, Mr. Ibrahim Idris, said Kwankwaso scaled the fence when detectives stormed his house to arrest him.
The top politician, according to the CP, who is a close associate of the Minister of Education, Ibrahim Shekarau, was implicated by 14 political thugs arrested by the police, who, during interrogation, confessed that Kwankwaso, a leader of a group known as PDP Vanguard in the area, sent them to destroy the election materials.

“Also, the suspects indicted one Musa Illyasu Kwankwaso as their sponsor. Detectives from SCID stormed his house but unfortunately, he jumped over the fence, abandoned his regalia (Jumper) and escaped into the bush. The man-hunt for him and four other suspects still at large is in progress,” Idris added.

Rabiu Kwankwaso, governor of Kano state, says Almajiri votes were responsible for kicking Goodluck Jonathan out of the presidential villa in Abuja.

Kwankwaso decried the political play in the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), saying it has divided Nigerians along religious and ethnic lines.

“It is unfortunate, in the last couple of years, we have seen a polarisation situation, this issue of Christianity, Islam, north and south, and even the issue of tribalism being promoted,” he said.

“It was not good for the system – it was not even good for my friend in the villa, so we are happy, we have seen the end of it now.”

The governor, who was speaking in an on-air interview with Channels television, said the president did well for himself; his party, the All Progressives Congress (APC); and the nation at large by conceding election.

He went on to advise that the Muhammadu Buhari-led administration must be willing to correct the ills and unite the nation to keep peace and stability.

“We encourage Buhari to be what a president should be; to carry along all the Christians, the Muslims and other people of other faiths in this country.

“Ensure peace and stability, take everybody as his own; even the PDP guys should be carried along by the president. The president is the father of all.

“We hope that people around him should be people who are experienced, who should not be talking of Hausas who are thrown away as Almajiris. That is completely wrong, and it has gone a long way in galvanising people in the north to ensure that this Almajiri votes were used to kick them out of the villa.”

The former minister of defence who has been elected to go to the next senate saw his state deliver 1.9 million votes for the APC at the presidential election.