Kabir Marafa, senator
representing Zamfara central, says he does not give a “damn” if the All
Progressives Congress (APC) loses the state in the fprthcoming elections.
Speaking with journalists in
Abuja on Tuesday, Marafa who is a governorship aspirant, said it is better to
have another party at the helm of affairs in the state than to have bad people
from the ruling party.
The Independent National
Electoral Commission (INEC) had barred APC in the state for failing to conduct
primary elections.
While the Abuja federal high
court upheld INEC’s decision, a high court in Zamfara asked the electoral
commission to recognise candidates from the faction of Abdulaziz Yari, governor
of the state.
Yari’s preferred candidate is
Muktar Idris, commissioner for finance.
“Even if APC lose in Zamfara
state, I don’t give a damn. The crisis that we are in today started we are in
today started with the APC itself. When we assumed the 8th Senate, APC said
these are the people we want you to vote as your leader,” the lawmaker said.
“Some of us felt that this is the
property of APC. The same people we are fighting today reneged said they won’t
do it and that was the beginning of this Crisis. APC asked us to vote Ahmad
Lawan as president of the senate and we stood hell bent that APC must have it’s
way and this people said no.
“They acted in disobedience. Some
of us are closer to Saraki than many of them but we obeyed the party and today
the people that made us to take that line of action are silent. No body cares
about us. Nobody is talking. Some of them gang up. There is a massive gang up
to all of us today.”
He accused Adamu Aliero, former
Kebbi governor, of fuelling the crisis in Zamfara because “he is a contractor
there.”
“Like senator Adamu Aliero, he is
one of the people that did all the ground work to make sure that Ahmad Lawan
lose and today he is at the forefront of fuelling this crisis in Zamfara
because he is a contractor there and he and his co-travellers, the body of
former governors and everything,” Marafa said.
“They are using their kinsmen in
the government circle to ensure that our people are enslaved, maimed, killed,
our women are raped, our children are orphaned all because they want to
continue to steal the resources of Zamfara.”
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