A group of the All Progressives Congress (APC) chieftains in Adamawa have rejected the results of last Sunday ward congresses, calling for total cancellation.
Usman Ibrahim, who presented a petition to the Ward and Local Government Congress Appeal Committee in Yola, on behalf of the Buhari Support Project 2019 said the exercised was marred by electoral fraud.
Usman said proper election did not hold in the 226 wards in the state, alleging that Governor Muhammadu Jibrilla’s stooges conspired with the committee to concoct the list of winners.
He lamented that the committee had compromised the foundation of justice and equity upon which the APC was founded having refused to sell forms to hundreds of aspirants until a day to the election.
He alleged that the members of the congress committee initially shunned senior citizens including former Secretary to Government of Federation, Babachir David Lawan, Senator Abdulaziz Nyako, and Senator Abubakar Mo-Allahyidi, who demanded for release of forms to aspirants.
"These senior citizens could not access members of the committee to demand release of forms until late on Friday. They released the forms around 5pm and reluctantly agreed to shift. None of our members is incorporated into the 226 congress committees", he said.
The Chairman, Congress Appeal Committee, Nuruddeen Abatemi Usman, who received the petition commended the group for peaceful conduct in expressing their grievances.
The Buhari loyalists also submitted a copy of the petition to the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) in Yola.
The Resident Electoral Commissioner of INEC, Kassim Geidam, promised to forward their grievances to the Commision’s headquarters in Abuja for necessary action.