Mystery Deaths: Kano Waits For Sai Baba-Buhari

By Chuks Ekpeneru

With the rage of death spreading through Nigeria’s second-biggest commercial centre of Kano, eyes everywhere are looking up to the political juggernaut who had in the recent past feasted on the political fortunes of the city.

It was as such not surprising that the immediate past governor of the state Rabiu Kwankwanso on Monday put aside political differences to call on President Muhammadu Buhari  to intervene.

Buhari had in the major beneficiary of the state’s political having dominated the elections in the state since 2003.

In a letter to President Muhamadu Buhari, which was made public, Kwankwanso, a member of the opposition People’s Democratic Party (PDP), accused the All Progressive Congress (APC) administration in the state of playing politics with the deaths.

Kwankwanso, while disagreeing with Governor Abdullahi Ganduje who had claimed that the deaths were not related to COVID-19, said:

“At present, and to all intent and purposes, the state has practically no Covid-19 response committee. What was hitherto, working as a COVID-19 committee was a contraption of cronies that are both unqualified and incompetent.

“As such they kowtow to the whims of politicians without any regards to professional healthcare considerations. The committee technically disbanded itself when the majority of the members were tested positive for Covid-19.

The letter from the leader of the Kwankwasiya Movement came at a time the PDP through their National Publicity Secretary, Kola Ologbondiyan accused the President of neglecting Kano tagging the central government as ‘insensitive and incompetent”.

Ologbondiyan expressed dismay that the Buhari Presidency had failed to take any concrete step on this frightening development.

“The party describes as lamentable that President Muhammadu Buhari, who promised to lead from the front, and who recently took up the toga of ECOWAS COVID-19 Response Champion, had rather receded into the safety of Aso Villa and failed to promptly activate any concrete and visible action to investigate and arrest the situation in Kano, where Nigerians are dying in their hundreds,” the PDP said in its statement.

However, the APC replied the PDP saying that the main opposition’s comment was an attempt to ridicule the efforts of the administration efforts to tackle the pandemic.

“This is yet another infantile and desperate attempt by the opposition party to play petty politics with a serious matter of national and international importance,”

“PDP has this rare opportunity to stand up to be counted by making positive contributions to end the scourge, but this opposition party thinks this is the time to politicise coronavirus cases and deaths, particularly in Kano State,” the party spokesperson, Lanre Issa-Onilu, said in the statement.

Even as the two major political parties tangled over the mysterious deaths, the people of Kano who have always stood by Buhari during elections are looking up to the federal government for an urgent intervention, even as reports say people are leaving the city out of fear in droves.

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