Scores of protesters from Niger State stormed the APC national secretariat in Abuja on Monday, calling the party’s National Chairman, Comrade Adams Oshiomhole, ‘barawo’.
The protesters, who were singing and dancing, came in the night within few minutes after those that marched against Senator Kabiru Gaya’s emergence as the APC Kano South senatorial district candidate had been dispersed.
They blocked the main road opposite the party’s secretariat, thereby holding the party’s National Chairman, party’s staff, journalists, and onlookers to ransom.
The protesters were requesting that Muhammed Sani Musa be declared the winner of Niger East senatorial district primary election instead of Sen. David Umar whom they claimed was given an automatic ticket. They claimed that Musa won the primary conducted.
Earlier, the protesters from Kano, led by Muhammad Awwal Kofa, claimed that the exercise that produced Gaya was marred by a lot of irregularities, ranging from election malpractices, rigging, compilation and announcement of fake election by Kano APC.
In a petition submitted to the APC National Chairman, they demanded that the alternative election be cancelled and declared Sulaiman Abdulrahaman Kawu, the winner having complied with the guidelines of the party during the first exercise.
The petition partly read: “The primaries election in Kano State was not conducted by the electoral panel sent by the national headquarters and the result was not announced by appropriate official legally.
“Therefore, we unambiguously demand that alternatively the election was rigged, giving false results. This election process was entirely in contravention of our party’s election guideline and constitution as there was no true and sincere internal democracy.”
Earlier yesterday, protesters from Nasarawa state also marched against the outcome of the recent primaries in the state.
