Police in Kano have foiled a prospective suicide after a a 22-year-old man Abba Ahmed threatened to kill self if Hanan, daughter of President Muhammadu Buhari did not marry him.
Hanan married Turad Sha’aban, a special adviser to the Minister of Works and Housing Babatunde Fashola, on Friday in a private ceremony at the Presidential Villa, Abuja.
Kano police spokesman Abdullahi Haruna told PUNCH that the police talked Mr Ahmed out of suicide.
Haruna said, “We were able to invite Abba Ahmed to the police command. He was counselled by the Force PRO, DCP Frank Mba, as well as Kano CP, Habu Sani, and the command’s imam, SP Abdullkadir Haruna, via a virtual session, at the end of which he rescinded his earlier decision to hang himself. He regretted his comments that if he did not marry the President’s daughter, Hanan, he would hang himself.”
Ahmed was quoted by Haruna as saying, “I realised that my intention is not healthy. Henceforth, I will never again attempt to find myself in such a situation.”
