By Abdullahi Alhassan, Kaduna
The African Democratic Congress (ADC) National Vice Chairman North, Hon. Jafar Sani has said, the Kaduna State Governor Uba Sani has perfected plans to rig the Saturday bye elections in Chikun, Kajuru and Sabon Gari local government areas of Kaduna state.
Jafaru Sani further explained that the Governor has compelled the 23 LG chairmen to contribute 30 million naira each, while the APC National leadership has sent in 1.5billion naira, all in order to sabotage and rig the forthcoming Bye-elections in favour the APC, which they said, it unacceptable and must be condemned and rejected by all.
Sani also alleged that already the Uba Sani administration has hired gangsters and thugs from many LGAs to the effect, as well as plans to use security agents to manipulate, intimidate and rig the potentials voters in the said elections.
Sani who came to the venue together with Former Governor Nasiru Elrufai, State ADC chairman, other executive members and teeming supporters made the allegations at a press briefings, held at Correspondents’ Chapel, Mogadishu layout Kaduna today, Thursday.
The ADC National Nice Chairman North who is also former Commissioner during El-Rufai administration, Sani said the APC administration under Uba Sani has hired over 4000 thugs to disrupt the elections, thus makes desperate and highly intimidated by the popular support of opposition parties especially the ADC in the state and nation at large.
He said, ADC as a nightmare to the excesses of the APC at both state and national levels due to bad leadership is poised to defend it’s votes, within the ambit of the law, and ensure electorates are allowed.
The ADC chieftain then charged the security agents to shun all inducements from the Uba Sani APC administration in this electoral matter and other political issues, and remain neutral and unbiased in providing security and safety of the electorates.
Responding to the allegations, the Kaduna State Commissioner for Information, Ahmed Maiyaƙi and that of Local government Affairs, Sadiq Mamman Lagos have debunked the ADC allegations as a charade and crying wolf where there is none, saying that they will use appropriate legal avenues to seek redress.
Commissioner Maiyaki said, the ADC’s allegations are just saving face because they have seen the handwriting on the wall they are being rejected by the electorates whom were oppressed by the Elrufai administration, hence they booed and almost stoned them during campaigns in some parts of Chuikun LG.
“How could the Kaduna electorates trust Elrufai and his men once again, when their administration has unleashed a reign of terror on their lives when they held sway,” Maiyaƙi asked.
He further said, it’s what the former Governor Elrufai administration was doing during such bye election, which they are now alleging could happen to them.
Maiyaki said, Governor Sani is a democratic person whose history is replete with struggles for the entrenchment of democracy, hence he is committed to electoral sanity and will not and never indulges in such acts.
He then said, they have contacted their counsels and would certainly take legal actions against such damning allegations, which are false, malicious and intended to create chaos, in an election they knows they are not going to win.
Responding to the allegations Commissioners for Local Government Affairs,and information Ahmed Mai yaki and Honorable. Sadiq Mamman Lagos said, the ADC/Elrufai claims of using LG funds to execute the forthcoming elections is a blatant lie and exactly what they were doing when they were in power.
He said, the Uba Sani administration as a democratic and people-centred one has many legitimate ways of fundings it’s elections to achieve victory, certainly not through the use of government funds.
He said, Elrufai is a frustrated person whose power drunkenness has driven him to near-insanity because he cannot survive without power. “These so-called Coalition is just intimidated and frustrated that they knows they are loosing because of the Elrufai’s tyrannical rule in the last eight years.
He then called on the good people of Kaduna state especially the electorates to disregard the allegations and continue to support the Uba Sani APC administration that are making their lives better across the whole state, regardless of all sentiments and the APC candidates in the said elections.
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