Police declares Kano ex-commissioner wanted over electoral violence

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.