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From Okwe Obi, Abuja
Protests have continued to trail the outcome of the primaries conducted by the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Bauchi and Zamfara States, ahead of the 2017 general polls, as an aspirant and a forum have petitioned the National Chairman of the party, Professor Nentawe Yilwatda, for a review of the exercise.
Chairman of the Bauchi Progressives Forum, Ibrahim Abdullahi, in a statement yesterday, rejected the results announced by the APC committee for the governorship primaries in Bauchi State, insisting that no election was conducted and that aspirants were instead pressured to step down.
“There was no governorship primary election in Bauchi State. Let us not attempt to deceive Nigerians. The aspirants were invited by certain individuals and asked to step down for former Governor Muhammad Abubakar. They reluctantly agreed because they were not given the opportunity of a credible direct primary.
“It is distasteful for the Chairman of the Primaries Committee to announce figures of votes that were neither cast nor counted,” he said.
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Also, Zamfara State senatorial aspirant for Zamfara North District, Aliyu Shinkafi has petitioned professor Nentawe Yilwatda, over what he termed as “imposition of Sahabi Alhaji Yau, as the sole candidate for the district.”
Shinkafi described the exercise as an injustice and a flagrant disregard for the Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria 1999 as Amended, Electoral Act 2026 and the constitution of the APC.
He warned that Governor Dauda Lawal will be the major loser in what he called “conspiracy to exclude already cleared Senatorial aspirants from participating in the senate primaries in Zamfara State as the chances of APC winning the elections in the state is minimal.”
“The current imposition of candidates by the APC is political banditry and proves to the nation that Bello Matawalle is a political bandit being the arrow head of this assault on our democracy.
“Accordingly, l directed all my supporters in Zamfara North Senatorial District not to participate in this undemocratic affirmation of anointed senatorial aspirants of Matawalle. It was common knowledge in Zamfara State that political thugs and hoodlums were mobilised to disrupt the senatorial primaries in the state to pave way for the illegal consensus.”
