By Fadhlillah Abdallah
Senator Abubakar Gada and Rep Abdullahi Balarabe Salame have announced their withdrawal from the Sokoto All Progressives Congress (APC) governorship primary election billed to hold on Thursday.
This is contained in a letter dated May 26, 2022, sighed by the duo, addressed to the National Chairman of the party, a copy of which was made available to newsmen.
The letter was in furtherance to a another dated 15 May 2022, in which they sought the national headquarters’ approval for the state chapter to adopt direct primaries in electing the flag-bearer of the party in the state.
Read the letter below:
This is to bring your notice and remind you also that Sokato state APC has been without recognized leadership due to litigation resulting to claims and counter claims, incessantly.
Chairman should recall that only few days to the primaries a confused pronouncement was made by the Federal High Court in Sokoto, that neither here nor there. Consequently, in other to put the party in strong position, the six out of seven aspirants formally requested for direct primaries as contained in the Electoral Act 2022 as amended.
We are aware that Sokoto State was among the several other states that requested for a direct primary due to unresolved issues in their respective states leadership. We are also aware that states like Osun, Abia and Benue has since been permitted to select their candidates through direct primaries.
While waiting for the gracious approval by the NWC, we the undersigned have opted to be on the side of the law and keep away from the charade about to take place in Sokoto state APC. We make bold to submit that whatever happens in the course of this so called exercise cannot stand the test of the law. Thereby putting the state chapter at the highest risk of nullification of whatever may emulate therefrom irredeemably.
Therefore we are respectfully informing the National Chairman that we the undersigned are not part of this compromised process in the interest of our party.
