Some members of the All
Progressives Congress, APC, known as Kaduna APC Democratic Elements, said they
will vehemently resist any attempt to smuggle El-Rufai as sole candidate of the
party.
“We shall emphasize that no
shunting and skipping of processes will be tolerated in our party and if other
States can do it, Kaduna State is a different place entirely,” the group said
in a statement signed by Victor Asat and Ahmed Idris, Chairman and Secretary
respectively.
The group warned that the
symptoms of the disease that aborted PDP’s vision aimed at governing this
nation for 60 years had manifested its ugly head in Kaduna Chapter of All
Progressive Congress.
It noted, “This we won’t allow to
grow and spread. We will continue to apply the right drug until the symptom
vanishes. We desire to see our party rule this nation far beyond PDP conceived
Sixty years, this is only possible if we allow internal democracy thrive.
“Our openness and internal
democracy was largely responsible for our successes during the 2015 general
elections, we can’t do otherwise as 2019 draws nearer.
“We wonder if, it is the same
crowd that booed the governor during the Saturday purported stakeholders
meeting are the same people that endorsed him. If the governor is afraid of the
shadows of his numerous anti peoples policies and his inability to provide
security for lives and properties for the populace in the state and how he
neglected leadership of the party at all strata, he should quietly take a bow
and leave the stage for people with widespread acceptability.
“There is no law that says a
governor must contest for second term even when he is sure of losing the election.
This is a governor that is only popular amongst his family, friends, imported
aides and consultants largely without electoral value.
“The communiqué has further
proven that the governor and his bandwagon are still been hunted by the monster
they created during the failed Election of National Delegates ahead of the
forth coming non elective convention. If it were not so, they can’t be seeking
for endorsement of the erstwhile falsefication of delegates list in the name of
July/August, 2017 Congress results in September, 2017.
“We stand by the true
stakeholders of our party in both Akida, Kaduna Restoration Group and our
elected representatives that distanced themselves from this sham, while the
Governor and his team should prepare for election, as the said National
Delegate list that they referred to as being accepted and endose has no place
in the APC Constitution and the Guideline issued by the National Headquarters
of the APC and therefore cannot be accepted by majority of party faithfuls in
the State.
“Not even the INEC shall accept
endorsement of the Governor in September, 2017 as a candidate for 2019 General
Elections by a crop of the party, Ward and LGA Executives that their tenure is
elapsing by December, 2017 and the State Executive by March, 2018 and because
the return of most of them is contemplated, we advice them to go and seek for
their returning ticket from the people that gave them the mandate to be party
officers at the 2014 Congresses, instead of dissipating their energy in favour
of the Governor that neglected them for almost a period of three years now from
the time they gave him this current unexpired trust.
“We shall not accept whereby the
Governor should cluster with our beloved President Muhammadu Buhari to hold the
jugular of this State, as the President is not threatening the civil servants
working under his jurisdiction with mass sack neither is he having a long
necklace of unpaid allowances and salaries hanging on his neck as the Governor
has despite the quantum of monies accrued to him and therfore Mr. Governor
should be ready to answer his surname and repercussions of his actions and
inactions of including dismissal of Districts and Village Heads, refusal to pay
Scholarship to student from his inauguration to date and as well as the threat
he directed at the traders for trying to evict them to demolish their markets
without payment of compensation but for the intervention of the High Court.
“We shall vehemently resist any
attempt to smuggle El-Rufai as sole candidate of our party without passing
through the rigorous democratic processes embedded in our darling party
Constitution and the Nations extant laws. We shall emphasize that no shunting
and skipping of processes will be tolerated in our party and if other States
can do it, Kaduna State is a different place entirely.
“It should be noted that during
the meeting, a voice vote was put place to pass a vote of confidence on the
administration of Buhari, all and sundry voted are, when it came to the
administration of Mallam Nasir El-Rufai, the voice that dominated the hall was
Nay. Instead of the signatory of the said communiqué to let go of that section,
they shamelessly reported that mallam has been endorsed as the party’s sole
candidate. There was no endorsement in last Saturday meeting, the selected
leaders of our party passed a vote of no confidence on EL-RUFAI led
administration in the state.”
The group expressed dismay that a
purported communiqué written by some APC members elected and appointed to
various offices of the party and public trust and turned representatives of the
Governor’s self-centered interest alleging that the All Progressives Congress
in the State has endorsed Governor Nasir El-Rufai as sole candidate of the
party for the 2019 General Election as Governor.
“The communiqué is not only
laughable but worrisome to all lovers of democracy that are wondering if those behind the said endorsement are aware that the Military
returned to barracks and what they intend to achieve is akin to Late Abacha’s
self styled but failed transition program, where he decided who gets what.
“It is more worrisome that Mallam
Uba Sani that worked hand in hand with Late Gani Fawehinmi as Pro democratic
element has a hand in the making and approval of such a shame that portraits the
APC as one without internal democracy, after all the framers of our Electoral
Act and our beloved APC Constitution included in each case for a Primary
Election as a mandatory part of democratic process that binds with nobody to
occupy any political office by shunting this process.
“It is most unfortunate that this
desperation was exhibited at the time material that many competent persons
within the fold of our beloved party have since indicated interest to contest
for the coveted position of the State Governor and expect the present Governor
to start preparing himself to join them in the race and canvass for votes if he
is still interested not for him to set up or proudly accept it from the so
called stakeholders meeting that was devoid of many other critical stakeholders
of the APC in ranks of Dr. Tom Maiyashi, Isah Ashiru, Dr Hakeem Baba Ahmed,
Haruna Saeed, Kajuru, Mikiah Tokwak, Alhaji Tijjani Ramalan, Amb. Sule Buba,
Sen Shehu Sani and etc and also Sen Suleiman Hunkuyi that attended on his own
volition in order to send a message of caution to the organizers of the
meeting,” the group observed.
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