Sen. Kabiru Marafa, representing
Zamfara Central, says Gov. Abdul’azeez Yari, has offended God for insisting
that the All Progressives Congress (APC) conducted party primaries in the
state.
NAN reports that Marafa, who
fielded questions from State House correspondents, faulted the governor for
initiating legal action over the matter and ask God to forgive him (Yari) for
misleading the people of the state on the issue.
He, however, commended the Court
of Appeal for “an excellent job’’, saying he initially thought he might not get
justice from his appeal against the state High Court judgment on the matter.
The Appeal Court had on March 25
nullified the primary election conducted by the Yari’s faction of the state
chapter of the APC against the previous ruling by state high court.
“It is a promise that God will
never help injustice against justice. So, I have always believe that this God
we serve will definitely at the end of the day, because God peace at the end
not the beginning.
“I’m sure most of you here are
being paid at the end of the month, not at the beginning of the month.
“So, at the end of the whole of
this thing, truth will prevail, undoubtedly. No fear about that. The truth is
there were no primaries in the state, the world knows, Allah knows, the angel
knows, everybody knows.
“So, even if somebody tries to
paint it somehow, somebody will come, a good man will come and restore back the
original paint. And the original paint is white. The white is the truth, the
truth is that there were no primaries, and the Court of Appeal has just done
justice to that.
“And I want to use this
opportunity to thank the President of the Court of Appeal for an excellent job
she did. You know, we were quite apprehensive from the beginning, fearing that
we might not get justice,” Marafa said.
He added: “But they have done
justice to that case and they have made judiciary proud and the people of
Nigeria proud. If that has not been done, I was afraid where we were heading
to.
“I read their judgement and I was
really very proud of the way it was written. That is how judgments are written,
not the way the state judgement was written.’’
Marafa, who lamented that Yari’s
actions have put the people of the state to shame, prayed that God would
forgive him for what he had done to the state.
According to him, a leader
telling lies in a state like Zamfara that practices Sharia is an anathema, and
leaders deserve prayers from their followers to avert God anger.
“I pray, may God forgive him for
what he has done, because to us, God has paid us immensely,’’ he added.
On the assertion that he (Marafa)
is playing the role of a spoiler and he should have let everything go since the
national leadership of the APC have endorsed the result of Yari’s faction on
the APC primaries, Marafa rhetorically asked: “Is the national leadership of
the APC equal to Nigeria? The answer is ‘no’.
“We are talking about the laws of
Nigeria and not talking about personalities. No matter how big you are, you
cannot circumvent the law. You cannot break the law by your right hand and then
use your left hand to say you want to amend it.
“You cannot commit a criminality
then you will approach the court and say ‘court legalise it for me’. You cannot
commit criminality and then hide under the umbrella of party and now say that
‘because the party is going to lose’. Who is party? The people have the party.
“It is not the Prince in Zamfara,
it is not the stones, it is not the land, it is not the roads, it is not the
wells or anything in the state, it is the people of the state that have the
party.
“So, if the people are
disenfranchised, if the people are cheated, we all have a duty to rise up above
party lines.
“After all, I came to the senate
as an ANPP member, today I’m APC. Most of the people you see today talking as
APC, they were something else before.
“So, it’s not about APC for God
sake, the National Chairman of this party, was seen condemning and saying that
primaries are not supposed to be conducted by state governors, or by state
party chairmen.
“You can’t just change overnight.
I am trying to speak the truth, even against myself. And that is exactly what I
did when it happened,’’ he said.
On the way forward in the state,
the senator advised all those not satisfied with the the appeal court judgment
to seek redress at the Supreme Court.
“Well, there is still one last
option left. It depends on what our opponents feel. There is the Supreme Court
option. If they are desirous of exploiting that, they are constitutionally,
legally allowed to do so. If they are not, so be it.
“Before, they were dragging us,
but we are now dragging them. We are not pleading with them not to go to the
Supreme Court. The most important thing that Nigerians need to know is that we
are not the aggressors as far as these problems are concerned.
“We are defending ourselves,
defending the people of Zamfara State. So, if there was never a day the
aggressors called us for a meeting or anything that we said no,” he said.
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