Former Governor of Zamfara State,
Senator Ahmad Sani Yarima says he may be contesting for the position of
president, following calls by his loyalists and allies to run for office.
He made the disclosure in Gusau,
during an interview on Radio Nigeria’s Pride FM, Zamfara State
The senator who vowed never to
contest any position at the state level, says he was still contemplating the
request by his friends to run for president.
While speaking on political
issues in Zamfara state, Yarima revealed details of his discussions with
President Muhammad Buhari about ex-governor Abdulaziz Yari.
The pairs private discussions
were over Yari’s imposition of candidates in the state chapter of the
Progressive Congress (APC) during the build-up to the 2019 general elections.
Yarima said he had met with
President Buhari before the elections, where the ex-governors hidden agenda was
disclosed.
According to him, the president
had expressed reservations about the imposition of candidates by Yari.
“We heard what your governor was
doing and we are disapproving of his plan to impose candidates because the
position at the party level is that primaries should be conducted to ensure a
level playing ground for all candidates”
The senator said President Buhari
had reported Yari’s scheming to the national chairman of the APC, Adams
Oshiomhole, stressing that he was in a fight with the former governor.
The senator quoted Buhari as saying;
‘I’m fighting with Governor Yari on his plan to impose candidates, I told him
that it would not be accepted but he insisted on doing as he wished. I then
told Oshiomhole that he should not worry, that I will talk to Governor Yari”
Following the revelations, Yarima
said he tried to intervene in the matter but Yari insisted that his party’s
national chairman, Oshiomle, had no right to stop his ambitions.
‘‘I told Yari that Oshiomhole was
not alone in opposing the idea, I said President Buhari was also disapproving
of it, but Yari said, ‘no, no, no, please don’t bring President Buhari into
this matter.’’
“President Buhari has no hands in
all the crises but Oshiomhole’, and that he would make sure he did as he
wished” he quoted Yari as saying.
“I said okay no problem and then
I left. I was very careful not to quarrel with him like I did with my ex-deputy
Shinkafi. Since he said I should back down, I retraced my steps in the affair
but whenever there was any activity concerning the party I would go if invited,”
Yarima lamented
“When President Buhari came for a
campaign in Gusau, the state capital, he said he would not raise the hands of
any candidate and he bluntly told the stakeholders his stand. “I then drew the
attention of Governor Yari to what Buhari said during the stakeholders’ meeting
when he arrived Gusau for his campaign rally. I told him that if he had allowed
me to explain what President Buhari said, all the crisis wouldn’t have
happened” Yarima said.
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