No fewer than 40 special detectives from the Inspector General of Police Kayode Egbedokun’s monitoring team have intensified search for the arrest of Governor Abba Kabir Yusuf’s Spokesperson, Sanusi Dawakin-Tofa.
The IGP men were deployed from Abuja to arrest Dawakin-Tofa on the instruction of acting Chairman of All Progressives Congress, Dr. Abdullahi Ganduje, were said to have been lodged at Tahir Guest Palace in the last two weeks to execute the mandate.
Ganduje had petitioned the IGP over the controversy surrounding his suspension from his Ganduje ward in Dawakin-Tofa local government of the state, accusing the Governor’s Spokesperson who is from his constituency of orchestrating the political downfalls.
Family sources told journalists on Tuesday that the team of detectives in plain clothes was noticed mounting surveillance around the residence of Dawakin-Tofa on Monday as part of ground move to carry out their assignment.
One of the members of the family who wants to remain anonymous because of security reasons lamented that the secret police ransacked the residence more than five times, scaring members of Dawakin-Tofa’s family including the wife and children as well as creating apprehension in the neighborhood.
“The IGP special force has mounted a dragnet for Sanusi Dawakin-Tofa’s arrest in the last two weeks despite an order of the court restraining the IGP, DSS, CP Kano and other security agencies from arresting and or harassing the Governor’s spokesperson,” the source said.
Recall that Justice Amina Adamu Aliyu of Kano State High Court had on Thursday granted an exparte application, preventing further manhunt of Sanusi Dawakin-Tofa pending the hearing and determination of substantive matter on his fundamental rights slated for 22nd January, 2025.
The animosity between Dawakin-Tofa and Ganduje dated nine years ago, specifically in 2015, when Ganduje, as governor-elect, reportedly ordered Dawakin-Tofa’s arrest over his opposition during the gubernatorial election.
In the latest harassment, Ganduje was said to have petitioned the IGP, accusing Dawakin-Tofa of being the brain behind his suspension by the APC Ganduje ward executives a few months ago.
Consequently, a team of 40 police officers from the IGP Monitoring Unit was reportedly mobilized to Kano with the sole aim of apprehending the governor’s Spokesperson.
Efforts to reach the National Police Spokesperson (FPPRO) failed as calls and text messages to his phone went unanswered.
