Less than 48 hours to election, security operatives arrest 2 LG Chairmen with guns in top northern state

Two Kano state local government chairmen Abdullahi Ramat of Ungogo and Munir Dahiru of Rimingado have been arrested with pistols.

Daily Nigerian reports that the duo were arrested by a combined security force of the Nigeria Military, the Police, the State Security Service and the Nigerian Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC).

Sources said that Messers Ramat and Dahiru were arrested while the joint security operatives were conducting a show of force in the state.

It was gathered that the duo were also leading an armed gang of thugs who planned on attacking the convoy of the 2023 presidential candidate of the New Nigeria Peoples Party (NNPP), Rabiu Kwankwaso along Zaria Road, Kano.

The source said: “The joint security force was on a show of force when they encountered the chairmen leading the thugs. The security agents immediately disarmed the chairmen and arrested over 100 thugs laying ambush on the NNPP candidate.

“They are currently detained at the Criminal Investigation Department, and the joint security force is intensifying patrol in the city to bring all the criminals to book."