By Gambo Abubakar Kaduna
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;Senatorial Aspirants
The Coalition of All Progressive Congress APC Senatorial Aspirants, have accused the state party stakeholders for conducting Three Senatorial zones primaries at government House not at wards level enshrined in APC guidelines.
The Senatorial Aspirants; Senator Danjuma Laah, RT Hon Yusuf Bala Ikara, Rt Hon Yusuf Zailani and Hon Michael Auta, called on the National Executive Council of the party for the total cancellation of the purported APC primary elections in the three senatorial zones of the state.
The Coalition of aspirants made the appeals during a press conference held at Nigeria Union Of Journalist state Secretariat in Kaduna.
The aggrieved aspirants however, called for redress and fresh election to be conducted inline with the rules and regulations of the Independent National Electoral Commission,( INEC)
The leader of the concerned aspirants, Senator Danjuma Laah, said “Senator Sunday Marshal Katung was announced winner of the purported APC primary elections of the Southern Senatorial Zone.
This was also replicate across all the Northern and Central zones of Kaduna State, announcing Senator Shehu Sani as winner of the Central senatorial zone and Hon Ramalan Yero as the purported winner of the Northern Senatorial Zone”.
The group alleged that, unauthorized direct primary delegates were used, absence of electoral material for the election, lack of notice for the conduct of the election.
And more than eighty thousand new party members were registered but only selected few perticipate in the election, some members were denied voting because no polling units were open at different centers.
Senator Danjuma Laah further noted, the conduct of this kind of primaries has directly violated the National Working Committee guidelines of the primaries which is clearly stated in article 20.
“The statutory provisions in the guidelines has clearly stated that any candidate who seeks to contest in the general elections must follow through the direct primaries or consensus by the members of the party,”
“as such, this will affect our parties participation in the general elections as the guidelines for the electoral act as amended’
He descried that during the exercise some electorate were denied access to cast votes.
Bala Ikara maintained that most people in Ikara were not happy with the outcome of the primary elections.
Yusuf Bala Ikara cautioned that if their complaints regarding the elections were not addressed, they would take the matter to court to seek for redress.
