Mustapha Kwankwaso gives Kano information commissioner 48 hours to apologise for alleged defamation

Former Kano State Commissioner for Youth and Sports, Mustapha Kwankwaso, has fixed the state’s Information Commissioner, Sanusi Bature Dawakin Tofa, 48 hours to retreat alleged defamatory remarks against him and contented a nationalist apology oregon look ineligible action.

Mustapha, who is the Nigeria Democratic Congress, NDC, lawman governorship candidate, denied claims that his father, Senator Rabiu Musa Kwankwaso, established the Kiru Rehabilitation Centre due to the fact that of him.

He said the centre was acceptable up arsenic portion of a authorities programme aimed astatine rehabilitating young people, and rejected allegations that his begetter financed his concern activities, insisting that helium established his businesses independently, including a atom processing factory.

The erstwhile commissioner further dismissed claims that helium was appointed Commissioner for Youth and Sports to betterment his character, saying his assignment was meant to alteration him to service the radical of Kano State.

Mustapha accused Sanusi Bature of utilizing his presumption to motorboat governmental attacks alternatively of keeping the nationalist informed astir authorities activities.

He demanded that "the commissioner publically retract the alleged statements and apologise to him, his household and the radical of Kano."

He warned that his lawyers would instrumentality up the substance if the request was not met wrong 48 hours.

He added that he...