Kaduna APC Primaries: Aggrieved Candidate Agrees to Meet Winner, Senator Uba Sani

Femi Adi

One of the aggrieved Candidates of All Progressives Congress (APC) in the just concluded primaries in Kaduna, Former Assistant Comptroller General (ACG) Customs Service, Malam Bashir Abubakar (Barden Kudun Zazzau) has agreed to honour the invitation for a meeting with the declared winner , Senator Uba Sani .
Uba Sani was declared winner after he polled 1, 149 votes, while a former Assistant Controller General (ACG) of Customs, Bashir Abubakar scored 37 votes and Alhaji Mahmood Sani Shaaban polled ten votes.

Addressing journalists during a press briefing held shortly after a meeting with members of his campaign team at Royal Blue Hotel ,Kaduna on Tuesday evening, Mal Bashir Abubakar explained , " I decided to call my campaign team and legal team to come with resolutions on the line of action about our grievances on the just concluded Kaduna APC primary election.

According to him , the meeting was successfully concluded with resolution was reached that the management team sit with Senator Uba Sani and his team and listen to them in order to see how to forge ahead.

He further said, "The Senator declared winner communicated with me a day after the election, his campaign DG and some senior government officials reached out to me on the need for a meeting.

"Whatever discussion we have with the senator we will let members of media know about it."

He however, said it was resolved to convey all complaints in writing to appropriate authorities .

"Soon after the election ,we sat with my DG Engineer ,James Bawa Magaji and decided to write to the appeal committee at the national secretariat. We have copied the party chairman, INEC and security agencies.

"On behalf of my campaign team, we are calling on management of our great party to look into the grievances of our people who participated in primaries. Doing so will unite the party and make it stronger.

"We are afraid of the consequences that not doing so might cause.

On his reaction to conduct of the election ,he explained,"On the day of election, we were called to party office in Kaduna for briefing and we were briefed about the dos and donts .It was at that time the list of delegates was given to us and the election was to take place in an hour.The entire process became a charade and child play.

"We decided however, to participate in the election, bearing in mind that our over 3,000 delegates were not on the list.

"The election screening process started and as expected, none of my over 3,000 delegates was allowed to entire the Yar'Adua Hall Murtala Square where the election took place. We allowed them to do their drama and the supporters of the government delegate we're able to give me 37 votes to finish second."

"We are afraid of the consequences that not doing the proper thing might cause."

Meanwhile, he urged his supporters to be calm and law abiding.

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