Chieftain of the All Progressives Congress in Zamfara State, Sani Shinkafi has referred to as on President Bola Tinubu and the Nationwide Chairman of the celebration, Nentawe Yilwatda to name the Minister of State for Defence, Bello Matawalle to order over his alleged hijacking of the e-registration membership train course of within the state.
Shinkafi made the decision on Tuesday whereas talking to newsmen on the Nationwide Secretariat of the celebration in Abuja.
He stated due to his ambition to contest the governorship election in 2027, Matawalle has ensured that he and his supporters aren’t registered as bonafide members of the celebration.
He threatened that until the nationwide management of the celebration insists on the best factor, the celebration will be unable to win any election within the state due to the intense fragmentation throughout the celebration.
Shinkafi, a former Nationwide Secretary of the All Progressives Grand Alliance, additionally stated he’s eminently certified to be registered as a member of the ruling celebration after his defection in 2021.
He additional stated it doesn’t matter what, there isn’t any approach anyone can sweep him beneath the carpet in Zamfara and nationwide politics as a result of he is likely one of the essential stakeholders and has mass followership to contest for workplace of governor.
“So going by my political profile, any individual will sit down as a result of he’s a member of Federal Govt Council (FEC) feeling that he has all the things to intimidate, to harass, and even exclude essential stakeholders like me and Aminu Sani Jaji from being registered as a member of our celebration.
“Get together politics is by curiosity. Nigerian Structure ensures any citizen of this nation to belong to any political celebration of his selection. However my very own selection is to stay in APC. However any individual who felt that he’s throughout the corridors of energy, desires to hijack the construction of the celebration by all means to contest for election”.
The APC chieftain additional puzzled why Matawalle thinks he can win the governorship election after he was defeated at the same time as an incumbent governor.
“When you have been a governor, you will have the machineries to battle. And also you have been defeated by any individual who was within the banking sector, who has by no means been in politics. He’s only a freelancer or a newbie. And he got here and defeated you within the gubernatorial election wholly and also you count on that you may now return and reclaim that mandate.
“So, I ponder why any individual will sit down on the consolation of his workplace dictating to the celebration that that is who needs to be registered, that is who shouldn’t be registered. By no means, the Nationwide Chairman and the nationwide management of the celebration, together with Mr. President, who’s the Nationwide Chief of the celebration, ought to enable any such egocentric politicians as a result of they’ve been swallowed by their determined ambition that they need to seize energy by all means.
“However it’s important to observe the due strategy of the interior celebration mechanism and the structure and different later electoral course of. This can be a democratic authorities. Every particular person has the best to contest. And we have now to guarantee that we uphold the norms and values of democratic establishments. So, that’s why I’m right here to fulfill with nationwide chairman and see how we are able to kind out these points”.
Recall that two weeks in the past, one other chieftain of the celebration from the identical Zamfara state, Aminu Sani Jaaji additionally complained that some robust stakeholders within the state have refused him registration as a member of the celebration.