Governor of Zamfara State,
Abdulaziz Yari, on Friday, said he has forgiven the Adams Oshiomhole-led All
Progressives Congress (APC) National Working Committee (NWC) over the unfair
treatment it meted out to the state chapter of the party.
Yari, who spoke after leading the
Zamfara APC governorship candidate, Mukhtar Idris, to a private meeting with
President Muhammadu Buhari at the Presidential Villa, Abuja on Friday, said the
court had vindicated Zamfara APC.
He said: “Some other people are
saying that the reign of Yerima and Abdulaziz for 20 years is over in Zamfara
State but I believe Almighty God to give power to whomsoever he desires to give
and he promised to sustain the power as long you uphold justice.
“I use this opportunity to call
on the party; the crisis didn’t die at the party level. I can say the party has
not done justice to us, but we have forgiven it; in a democracy, there is a
process.
“Section 87, 1 to 14 of the
Electoral Act is very clear on what should be done; so, in our case, we were
denied many things but as I said earlier, we have forgiven and we are going to
continue.
“You remember, from October,
2018, we have been struggling on whether there is primary or no primary in
Zamfara State by INEC and we believe we have undergone all the processes.
“Today, God did it once again for
us by giving us victory. The court accepted that Zamfara State APC has
conducted its primaries based on the evidence presented before that court.”
The Governor said that Zamfara
people were happy with the judgment and would vote massively for APC in the
forthcoming elections.
He also commended INEC, in spite
of what he described as conflicting statements from the commission’s national
office and its Resident Electoral Commissioner (REC).
“The state REC went around and
supervised as allowed by the law. Unfortunately, the INEC headquarters did not
wait to receive the report by the REC there and it went ahead with a pronouncement.
“Anyway, we secured the certified
true copy and presented before the court and I think it is the document that
supported the court in its process to pass the judgment in our favour,” he
said.
Yari said that Zamfara State was
100 per cent APC and would deliver, adding that the opposition knew it stood no
chance in the state.
Recall that the Zamfara State
High Court 3 sitting in Gusau on Friday upheld the primary election conducted
by the state chapter of APC.
The state APC chapter had on Oct.
11, 2018, filed a case before the court praying it to compel the APC national
headquarters and the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) to accept
the primary election it conducted on Oct. 7, 2018.
The national headquarters of the
APC had earlier declared that there was no primary election of the party in the
state.
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