Abdulaziz Yari, governor of
Zamfara state, says he is under pressure to leave the ruling All Progressives
Congress (APC).
Yari, who is not on the same page
with Adams Oshiomhole, chairman of the ruling party, said this while speaking
with state house correspondents after meeting with President Muhammadu Buhari
at Aso Rock.
He had accused the national
working committee of the APC of attempting to impose candidates on Zamfara for
the 2019 elections.
Yari said his supporters were aggrieved
over failure of the party leadership to acknowledge the primaries conducted in
the state last week.
“I cannot deny pressure from the
people that we should leave APC but what I told them is that what we are
looking for is justice,” he said.
However, Yari has vowed to pursue
justice in the ruling party, describing himself as a politician who does not
jumping ship easily.
The governor said mischief makers
were giving the impression that he was considering joining the Peoples
Democratic Party (PDP).
“If you check my history since
1998, APP, and 2002 when Buhari joined ANPP, and 2015 APC, no time that I
shifted from one party to another. That is not in my culture. So, the issue of
leaving the party is not true,” he said.
“But some other people are
sending rumour through the social media. I have seen my picture with the PDP
and other parties.”
Yari also insisted that primaries
held in Zamfara, wondering why the Independent National Electoral Commission
(INEC) barred the APC from fielding candidates for the 2019 polls.
The governor also warned the
national leadership of the party not to present any list that did not emanate
from the state.
“We conducted election and we
want to see what the result is going to look. But I think for any body to come
under the national secretariat and say he is going to nominate a candidate, I
think, it is a very huge joke.” he said
“There were hitches somewhere but
we decided to suspend the area there were problems until the following day. So,
the following day, we continued and we concluded the election by the people
nominated by that committee to conduct election but the committee ran away and
refused to collate the results.
“So, what we did was that we
filed the results and kept it under the watch of those people and waited to see
what was going to happen. The second committee waited 32 hours to the closing,
we thought the committee will hasten and come up with modalities for the
election.
“But committee wasted about 18
hours discussing about how the modalities were going to be. So, when we
realised that, we were actually advised by the supervisory agency that is INEC
and other agencies there that the best thing to do as the people had voted and
since it was 7am was to start counting.
“When they finished, they released
the materials and we adopted the numbers. Already, we had produced our own set
of forms for the national Assembly which we have done and then, when we
concluded, I didn’t see members of the committee until one and half hours to
the time.
“Then, when they came I asked
them what they came for, they said they came for reconciliation and I said
which reconciliation? People can not reconcile over a month and you are trying
to reconcile in an hour. Then, I realised that there was a game that was being played
so that we can run out of time.”
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