The All Progressive Congress Youth Organizations have accused Senator Aliyu Magatakarda Wamakko and the chairman of the party in the state, Bashir Isa Achida of trying to impose “unpopular” candidate for the forthcoming Governorship election in the state.
It was said that Wamakko who is the de facto leader of the party in the state had single-handedly picked his godson who is the current deputy Governor of the state, Alhaji Ahmed Aliyu as the flagbearer of the party at the detriment of his former Commissioner of Finance and Local Government, Alhaji Faruk Yabo and two others who also purchased nomination forms.
Aliyu had refused to follow his Governor, Aminu Waziri Tambuwal to the Peoples Democratic Party.
The other aspirants are Abubakar A. Gumbi and Senator Abubakar Umar Gada.
Addressing a press conference in Sokoto, the youths accused the chairman of the party of being bias by accompanying the deputy Governor to the national secretariat of the party to purchase his declaration of interest form.
“We are using this medium to inform the national leadership of our great party of the activities of prominent leaders of the party in the state which we perceive to be a conspiracy against the success of the party in the forthcoming general election in 2019,” the spokesman of the group, Umar Faruk has said.
He added “Their recent activities are indicative of a connivance to put forward an unpopular candidate for the Governorship race in order to give the opposition in the state a safe landing and further jeopardize the re-election of President Muhammadu Buhari in Sokoto,”
The youths however, added that failure of the national leaders of the party to address these cases could lead to massive protest votes against the party in 2019.
When the news about the purported endorsement of the deputy Governor by Senator Wamakko was broken by Wamakko’s close associate, it generated anxiety among the party’s members and supporters some of whom took to the social media platforms to kick against it and advocated for free and fair primaries involving all the aspirants.
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