The Inspector General of Police, Kayode Egbetokun has ordered the police monitoring unit to produce Governor Abba Yusuf’s spokesperson, Sanusi Bature at the force headquarters over alleged criminal defamation of the National Chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Abdullahi Ganduje.
It would be recalled that in 2024, the APC warr executive had suspended Ganduje as a member of the party, over what it described as anti-party activities and lack of payment of party dues.
This decision was alleged to be masterminded by Mr. Bature, who happened to come from the same locality.
In a letter dated May, 23 2025 ,with file number CR/3000/IGP-SEC/MU/ADM/14/ABJ/VOL 118/57, addressed to the Secretary to the Kano State Government, the inspector -general of police demanded the release of Bature to appear before one SP Mojirode Obisiji on Thursday May 29, 2025.
According to the invitation letter signed by the head, IGP Monitoring Unit, a Deputy Commissioner of Police, Akin Fakorede, “the police is investigating a case of criminal defamation of character, intentional insult, impersonation and conduct likely to cause the breach of the peace, reported to the IGP in which the above mentioned appointee attached to the office of the executive governor of Kano State as chief press secretary featured prominently.
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“In view of the above, you are requested to release the said Sanusi Bature Dawakin-Tofa to report for an interview with the undersigned, through SP. Mojirode B. Obisiji on Thursday, 29th May, 2025 by 1200hrs at the first floor Louis Edet House, Force Headquarters, Abuja, to shed more light on the allegation raised”.
Recalled that the IGP, in December, 2024 issued a similar order with the deployment of operatives of the IGP’s monitoring unit to arrest the governor’s spokesperson.
It was gathered that the police is intensifying the arrest of Bature for his alleged involvement in the suspension of Ganduje by his ward executive in 2024.
The controversy erupted after Ganduje alleged a conspiracy spearheaded by Bature, who hails from the same local government as him, and the New Nigeria People’s Party (NNPP)-led Kano State Government, where the APC chairman alleged that Bature was behind his suspension, a move he described as an attempt to cripple his political influence.
