Kano PDP rejects governorship primary election
The embattled chairman of the Kano state chapter of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Senator Masa’ud El-Jubrin Doguwa, on Tuesday in Kano rejected the outcome of the gubernatorial election organized by the leadership of the Kwankwasiyya PDP faction loyal to immediate-past governor of Kano state, Senator Rabi’u Musa Kwankwaso.
Doguwa who spoke on behalf of other governorship aspirants, state House of Assembly and National Assembly aspirants, as well as leadership of the party in both Wards and Local Government Areas, condemned the exercise, describing it as illegal and a political drama.
The chairman accused the PDP National Secretariat of playing the script of an individual against the collective interest of the party in the state, saying all what they are demanding for is for a free, fair and transparent process that will involve all the aspirants to elect candidates that will bear our party’s flag in the 2019 general elections.”
According to him, the House of Assembly, National Assembly and other governorship aspirants are aggrieved, “and now in a confused state over the current situation as primaries to select candidates for the position of state and National Assembly members are coming up on Wednesday and Thursday. Up till this moment, we are kept in the dark.”
Doguwa further stated that, “it is quite unfortunate that a stranger (Kwankwaso) who just joined the party staged a Kangaroo gubernatorial primary to announce to the world that his son in-law emerged as the governorship candidate in his house known as Lugard House, which was purely against the rules governing the party’s primary process.
“Let me tell you, there wasn’t any election yesterday (Monday) because the National Working Committee has already suspended the governorship primary elections in three states across the country—that is Kano, Lagos and Imo states; and there is no counter announcement.
“So, anybody that conducted election in these three states is making a mistake; and I don’t even call what happened in Kano an election. You can only call it a Kangaroo or drama. We want to assure you people that we are here in Kano; and we want to make sure that a legitimate election takes place.
“About seven aspirants bought gubernatorial forms in Kano. If you want to be fair to them, you have to involve them in every decision, stage by stage. But there was nobody that involved them. So, don’t even tell me that there was election. We will not accept an election that was done one-sided in an individual’s compound. That is never done in the history of politics. Never!
“So, quote me anywhere, my position and that of all party stakeholders is that there was no PDP governorship election in Kano. There must be a time that the National Working Committee will fix a date for the PDP governorship election here in Kano state.
“We were not informed about what they did. We were not aware. So, we are not part of it. All we are telling everybody, including the PDP National Secretariat is that we are the grass-root politicians. This issue of primary election to elect candidates that will bear the party’s flag at different levels involves only us because the comprehensive list of authentic delegates has already been forwarded to the National Secretariat. Nobody changes that.
“I believe that the National Secretariat is only making things very difficult for us in the grass-root. So, I want to assure them that there is no election in Kano and we will not accept any result coming from that political drama.”
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