Nigeria could have been on fire if the Supreme Court had sacked Kano State Governor, Abba Yusuf, a chieftain of the New Nigeria People’s Party (NNPP), Buba Galadima has said.

 

Galadima stated this in an interview on Channels Television’s Sunday Politics.

 

He congratulated President Bola Tinubu of the All Progressives Congress (APC) for not interfering with the independence of the judiciary though his partyman, Nasir Gawuna, was involved in the matter.

 

He said: “I am congratulating Mr President for not interfering with the judiciary because Nigeria could have been on fire by now if what happened on Friday did not happen.

 

I congratulate him (Tinubu) for having the strength of character and you can see that peace has pervaded the whole of Nigeria and our rating in the eyes of the world has come out,” he added.

 

According to Galadima, there was a plan to wrest power from the NNPP in Kano as the party kicked out the APC from the seat of power in the last poll.

 

“There was a plan to take Kano by force from every level, but I congratulate the Supreme Court for restoring the honour, dignity of the judiciary.

 

“If they had ruled otherwise, they could have been stoned on the street of Nigeria and nobody could be able to ride a car with the inscription of Supreme Court of Nigeria, and there would have been a total of confidence in the judiciary and I don’t think anybody would ever dream of going to the Supreme Court to seek redress,” he said.

 

It was earlier reported that the Supreme Court delivered judgements in eight governorship disputes last Friday, upturning the verdicts of lower courts in three of the cases.

 

Before Friday’s judgement on the Kano governorship dispute, tension was high in the state which has been a battleground between APC gladiators like the ex-Kano governor and current national chairman of the ruling party, Abdullahi Ganduje; as well as opposition heavyweights like 2023 NNPP presidential candidate, Rabiu Kwankwaso.