The National Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP has been called upon, to as a matter of urgency, cancel the result of the governorship primary election in Sokoto to avert disaster at the general election next year.
This call was made by a chieftain of the party in the state, Alhaji Yusuf Abdulahi in an interview with Thisday.
Abdulahi accused a former governor of the state, Attahiru Bafarawa of being hired to destroy the party in the state, adding that if Senator Abdallah Wali is allowed to be the governorship candidate of the PDP in the state, the party will lose the 2015 elections. He described the primary election that produced Wali as a sham.
Abdulahi accused Bafarawa of imposing Wali on the party through the back door by influencing the chairman of the Electoral Panel, to conduct election at midnight.
“What happened Monday night is a sham not an election and an indication that Bafarawa was paid to destroy PDP and weaken it in the state ahead of 2015 election.
“Tell me a PDP state in the federation where voting commenced at midnight apart from Sokoto. What do they want to achieve by conducting election with illegal delegates? Abdullah queried.
He insisted that two PDP governorship aspirants, Alhaji Mukhtar Shagari and Yusuf Suleiman boycotted the election because it was obvious the Electoral Panel favoured one of the aspirants.
Accusing Bafarawa of imposing an unpopular candidate as the chairman of the party in the state, he further said that the former governor created chaos and division in all the parties he joined in the past, especially in the defunct All Nigeria Peoples Party (ANPP).
Warning of an impending humiliation in 2015 if Wali’s candidacy stands, Abdulahi called on the national chairman to as a matter of urgency disband the electoral panel and set up another one that would ensure fairness to all parties.
“PDP will be humiliated by APC and I assure you that the party will not even get a councillor let alone win the 2015 election, if the national leadership allows Wali as the party’s candidate in the state,” Abdullahi added.
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