‘Tinubu Must Go’ Group Alleges Police Blocked Kano Meeting

Secret Takeaways

• Convener, Abba Hikima, stated law enforcement officer obstructed the ‘Tinubu Must Go’motion from going into a personal location they employed for a Sunday conference in Kano.
• In a live video on his confirmed Facebook page, Hikima declared about 10 mobile squad cars were released, and an officer challenged the group’s motto clothes.
• Hikima stated Kano Commissioner of Police, Ibrahim Bakori, contacted Saturday looking for prior notification, however he mentioned Sections 35, 39 and 40 and pledged more events.

Members of the’Tinubu Must Go’motion have actually objected the supposed blockade of their conference place by policeman in Kano State.

A legal representative and convener of the motion, Abba Hikimastated security workers avoided individuals from going into a personal location employed for the event on Sunday.

The motion explains itself as a non-partisan platform looking for to mobilise Nigerians to vote out President Bola Tinubu in the 2027 basic elections. It associates its project to financial policies it states have actually aggravated challenge.

Speaking in a live video on his validated Facebook page, Hikima declared that about 10 mobile police cars had actually been released to the place.

Some policeman showed up in the background as he attended to audiences while using a t-shirt and fez cap bearing the motion’s engraving.

“Today, the 11th of October 2026, we collected here in Kano State in order to exercise our essential human rights and to associate easily in order to exchange concepts and inform ourselves on the requirement to send out away the administration of Bola Ahmed Tinubu in Nigeria,” he stated.

Hikima implicated the cops of blocking a serene event, firmly insisting that individuals had actually devoted no offense.

He stated, “They have actually been stationed here in order to avoid us from accessing the personal place which we spent for; we are to collect here to exercise our civic rights … This is even the more reason that Tinubu should go.

“We are not bad guys, we are not goons, we are not goons and we have actually not dedicated any offense. And there is absolutely nothing incorrect with what we are doing today.”

The legal representative stated the Kano State Commissioner of Police, Ibrahim Bakori, called him on Saturday and asked why the organisers had actually not notified the command about the conference.

According to Hikima, he discussed that the program would happen within a confined location and individuals would perform themselves in harmony.

“I wish to state it plainly that the other day the Kano State Commissioner of Police, Ibrahim Bakori, called me on the phone and informed me that courtesy needs that I notify them of this conference. I stated, ‘Sir, our conference is going to remain in an enclosed environment within a boundary and we are going to be civil, we are attorneys’,” he mentioned.

Hikima preserved that the organisers did not need authorities approval to put together, pointing out constitutional arrangements on liberty of expression, association and individual liberty.

“This is our understanding and the law has actually provided us the right, under area 39 of the Constitution, to exchange concepts and viewpoints,” he stated.

“And we have the right, under area 40, to associate and we have the individual liberty, under area 35, to do this.”

Hikima likewise declared that an officer challenged individuals using clothes bring the ‘Tinubu Must Go’ engraving.

“One of them even informed me that they have no issue with us however we simply should not use this insignia; But I state We should use this,” he stated.

He firmly insisted that the motto was a political expression and swore that the motion would arrange additional events.

“The Court of Appeal choice stands. I do not require to notify any security representative to hold my rallies. Next time, we are going to demonstration; Next time we are going to show; next time we are going to strike the ground,” he included, as individuals shouted, “Tinubu Must Go.”