ASHENEWS reports that a group under the aegis of the Sokoto Progressives Solidarity League (SOPSOL) has critisised Sokoto state governor, Aminu Waziri Tambuwal, for alleging that the All Progressives Congress (APC) had hatched a plot to hack into the servers of the Independent National Commission (INEC) with the intention of rigging the 2023 general elections.
Tambuwal was reported to have alleged, at the Sani Abacha Stadium venue of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) Presidential campaign rally in Kano that, “We are aware that they (APC) have bought hackers to hack the Bimodal Voter Accreditation System (BVAS), to compromise INEC Servers.”
However, the chairman of the League, Mohammed Musa Goronyo, in a media statement made available to newsmen on Sunday, said Tambuwal was merely crying wolf where there was none.
According to the statement, “the claim, coming from Tambuwal at this point, was a proof that the Governor has started sensing defeat and desperately searching for lame excuses to justify a looming defeat,” while urging him to “concentrate on gaining back the political strength and relevance he has been losing, courtesy of the game-changer tactics of opposition APC in his domain.
“It is very clear that Tambuwal is just rising from the ashes of his political Waterloo, following the Mother-of-all APC rallies in Sokoto that witnessed an unprecedented mammoth gathering of electorates and party executives in the recent history of not only the caliphate but the Northwest in its entirety,” the statement reads.
The group also advised the governor to “start writing handing over note for his predecessor in the APC, Ahmed Aliyu, whose towering political profile and the combined arsenal of godfather of Sokoto politics — Senator Aliyu Magatakarda Wamakko, have continued to ruffle feathers this season.”
