Non-indigenes Flee North Over 2015 General Election

A few weeks to the 2015 general election, non-indigenes have begun to flee Kano over fear of violence, while it was reliably gathered that residents of the state from different parts of the country had begun to desert the historical northern city.

The Minister-in-Charge of the Faith Life Assembly Worldwide, Bishop David George, who paid a courtesy call to the Emir of Kano, Muhammadu Sanusi II, at the weekend, also made the dis...closure, appealing to the Kano emirate council to intervene in the situation.
George urged the emirate council to end the worrisome rate at which non-indigenes were fleeing from the state, saying, “The 2015 election will hold without trouble, the election will hold in peace. I want to appeal to His Royal Highness to use your good office to appeal for calm.”
Bishop George also cautioned youths not to allow themselves to be used by desperate politicians to cause untold hardship to innocent people.
In his reaction, the emir cautioned politicians to desist from acts capable of causing disorder or disunity, saying that “there is no society that can flourish in the absence of a peaceful atmosphere.”
The emir noted that Kano, as a cosmopolitan city, needed peace, commending the various tribes resident in the state for the existing peaceful coexistence.
This is just as he stated that peace would continue to reign before, during and after the elections, stating that “the door to his Kano palace is always open to those who intend to seek his collaboration to work towards the development of the state and the country at large.”
Meanwhile, the Chairman of Christian Association of Nigerian (CAN), Bishop Ransom Bello, has called on non-indegenes to stay in Kano and cast their votes for the candidates of their choice, saying the forthcoming general elections will be peaceful.