A chieftain of the New Nigeria People’s Party (NNPP), Buba Galadima, said the nation could have been on fire had the Supreme Court, during its judgment last Friday, sacked Governor Abba Yusuf of Kano State.
The NNPP chieftain expressed this in an interview on Channels Television’s Sunday Politics.
Galadima congratulated President Bola Tinubu for not interfering with the judiciary’s independence though his partyman, Nasir Gawuna, was involved in the matter.
“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,” he said.
Galadima disclosed that there was a plan to wrest power from the NNPP in Kano as the party overthrew the APC from the power seat in the last election.
“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.
The Supreme Court, last Friday, delivered judgments in eight governorship disputes, upturning the verdicts of lower courts in three of the cases.
Of the eight cases, those of Kano, Plateau and Zamfara eerily stood out as the apex court overruled the earlier rulings of the tribunal and the Court of Appeal to reinstate the governors in the three states.
The judgments have been applauded by the opposition NNPP and the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) who now control Kano; as well as Plateau and Zamfara, respectively.
