Katsina PDP crisis deepens as two more aspirants reject Lado’s consensus ticket

The crisis rocking the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Katsina has continued to widen as more gubernatorial aspirants rejected the party’s “consensus” candidate, Senator Yakubu Lado saying the processes that led to his emergence was flawed.

Two more aspirants, Abdullahi Garba Faskari and Sada Ilu in a statement issued by Alh.Dauda Kurfi, the DG-AGF Campaign Organisation on behalf of the aspirants, said having ealier agreed on the process to be followed in selecting a consensus candidate by the party before the primaries. We also agreed among other conditions that “…there will be no Voter inducement, financial or otherwise from any one of us…”

“We realised, however, that all the conditions were breached with the active connivance of the state Party Chairman and some of the party officials”.

“In view thereof, we have rejected the result; and have lost confidence in the leadership of the party at the state level and as such, we are not comfortable to participate in the primaries unless there is very strong intervention by the PDP National Headquaters on transparency, justice & fair play.

“We are by this Press Release urging the PDP National Headquarters to intervene in the interest of the party, party members in the state & the people of Katsina State in general,” it read.

Daily Trust reports that already, three other aspirants, Abdullahi Umar Tsauri, Musa Nashuni and Arc. Ahmed Aminu Yaradua have kicked against the mock election that produced Lado as the party’s guber candidate.