The political pressure in Kano has continued as Nigeria police chief, Inspector Common of Police, Kayode Egbetokun, has ordered the looks of Sanusi Bature Dawakin-Tofa, spokesperson to Governor Abba Kabir Yusuf, on the Power Headquarters in Abuja.
This newest police invitation is tied to the controversial 2024 suspension of the APC Nationwide Chairman, Dr. Abdullahi Umar Ganduje — a political heavyweight within the state.
The police consider Dawakin-Tofa performed a serious position in orchestrating the drama that led to Ganduje’s momentary elimination by his ward’s occasion executives.
In an official letter dated Could 23, 2025, the IGP requested the Kano State Authorities to launch Dawakin-Tofa for questioning.
The letter, signed by Deputy Commissioner of Police, Akin Fakorede, claimed the governor’s aide is being investigated for felony defamation, impersonation, and conduct more likely to trigger a breach of peace. The police need him to seem on Could 29 earlier than considered one of their high officers, SP Mojirode B. Obisiji, on the Power Headquarters in Abuja.
This isn’t the primary time the police have gone after Dawakin-Tofa. Again in December 2024, the same arrest order was issued over the identical matter — a improvement that triggered authorized battle between the police and the Kano authorities.
On the coronary heart of this saga is a long-standing political feud between Ganduje and Dawakin-Tofa, each of whom hail from the identical space in Kano. Their rivalry stretches again to 2015, when Ganduje, then governor-elect, allegedly ordered Dawakin-Tofa’s arrest over his opposition throughout that yr’s election.
In 2024, Ganduje was suspended by the APC govt committee in his ward — a transfer the occasion later disowned, however one which stirred huge political ripples.
Fingers instantly pointed at Dawakin-Tofa, with Ganduje accusing him of plotting the entire thing to crush him (Ganduje’s) in Kano.
In response to the preliminary police transfer in opposition to him final yr, Dawakin-Tofa secured a courtroom order shielding him from arrest, detention, or harassment.
That injunction coated not solely the IGP, but additionally the DSS, Civil Defence, and senior law enforcement officials concerned within the case. Nevertheless, that authorized safety hasn’t stopped the most recent police motion.
His authorized workforce has since appealed a ruling by a Kano Excessive Court docket that dismissed his swimsuit in opposition to Ganduje and the police, hoping the Court docket of Attraction will supply aid.
The political pressure in Kano is barely getting thicker, particularly with the 2027 common elections on the horizon.
