“I Was Only Motivating Them” – Says Kano Lawmaker Who Threatened To Deal With Constituents If They Don’t Vote APC » Naijaloaded

Majority Leader of the House of Representatives and an All Progressives Congress (APC) chieftain, Ado Doguwa, has defended his latest controversial remark the place he threatened folks to vote for APC in 2023.

Doguwa was heard within the video, telling his followers he’ll cope with them in the event that they don’t vote for APC within the 2023 election. He mentioned, “To God who made me, on election day, you must vote for APC or we deal with you.”

Making a clarification throughout an interview on Channels Television, Doguwa mentioned his intention was to inspire supporters, not intimidate them.

He additional insisted that they had been mere “political semantics” and “rhetoric,” as “sloganeering” can’t be stopped in Kano politics.

Doguwa mentioned,

“That is just not a risk. I might by no means threaten our voters. What you don’t learn about Kano State (is that) Kano State is one very particular political house. We have our particular semantics in politics.

“We have the shenanigans we use throughout electioneering campaigns. Kano State is an aggressive state when it comes to politics of ideology. In Kano State, we’ve got our personal manner or approaches in the case of campaigns. You should make use of and use what is going to ginger your folks.

“We have inherited this from time immemorial. Asking folks to vote for APC or we cope with them merely means – like what you may name shenanigans, political brouhaha which we make merely to ‘ginger’ our supporters, to allow them to really feel that we’re on the bottom and we’ll get it proper.

“I by no means meant to intimidate, I by no means meant to threaten any of my voters. I’m an inexpensive individual. I’ve been in election processes for the previous 32 years and I’ve by no means used threats or intimidation to win my elections.

“But you cannot take away political shenanigans, brouhaha, and sloganeering in Nigeria’s politics. Nigerians should not take this as a threat. It’s part of our political shenanigans and brouhaha. This is what we call the highlights of democracy in Kano politics and you cannot rule that out,” he mentioned.