Senator David Umaru (APC, Niger East) has alleged that the party’s senatorial primary election was fraught with irregularities and did not meet the basic standard of an election.
Umaru had lost the election to Alhaji Sani Musa in the primary conducted on Tuesday.
In an interview with newsmen in Minna, Umaru said election never took place in the first place, adding that the outcome was predetermined in favour of a particular candidate.
He alleged that the process of the primaries from the beginning was flawed while the list of eligible voters was kept secret by the party exco in the state.
“Thugs were used to beat up and chase away my supporters and disrupt voting. In many cases, elections were not done but results were manufactured and announced. This is shame to APC and I condemn it in total,” he said.
He said he had tried to reach out to the national chairman of the party, Adams Oshiomhole, to register his protest over what he referred to as “a charade.”
Our correspondent reports that all the three senators in the state who lost during the primaries were calling for cancellation of the exercise.
