The Governorship Candidate of the All Progressives Grand Alliance (APGA) in Zamfara State, Alhaji Sani Abdulahi Shinkafi,Thursday called for the removal of the Resident Electoral Commissioner (REC) in the state, Hajiya Asma’u Sani Maikudi and the heads of all the security agencies in the state over allegations of bias and fraudulent practices.
Shinkafi in a petition to the Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) and Heads of Security agencies said that the party has rejected the results of last Saturday’s Presidential and National Assembly elections.
He warned that failure to remove the said officials would result in tension in the state as his supporters would not be intimidated.
“I am constrained to address you on the outcome of the just concluded National Assembly Election conducted on the day of 23rd February, 2019 which we in the All Progressives Grand Alliance (APGA) see as the worst election ever conducted in the history of Zamfara State, under the leadership of Hajiya Asma’u Maikudi as Resident Electoral Commissioner of INEC.
“We reject the outcome of the elections and results announced in Zamfara State in its totality. The election was not free, fair transparent, violence free and acceptable. It was full of irregularities, threat to life, intimidation, harassment, by hoodlums, Security agents”
“We demand the immediate cancellation of the Election results, the removal of the REC , Hajiya Asma’u Sani Maikudi and all the Heads of Security agencies out of Zamfara State as we have lost confidence in all of them,” Shinkafi said.
According to him, if they are allowed to handle the next segment of the elections it may be bloody because they will resist any attempt from any quarter to rig the governorship and state house of assembly election by the ruling APC government in the state in connivance with security agents.
He said, “We call on you as the INEC Chairman to as a matter of urgency investigate the activities of the Resident Electoral Commissioner of Zamfara State and the staff with respect to late distribution of Election Materials to Local Government Areas, Wards, Polling Station, in all the fourteen (14) Local Government Area, 147 wards, 2516 Polling Stations respectively.
