He also said the recent Kaduna local government election was a clear evidence that the electorate will vote for the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC ) and the State Governor, Malam Nasir el-Rufai in 2019.
He hinged his declaration on the premise that besides being popular, the electorate will vote el-Rufai based on his track records and performance.
The governor’s aide, who was reacting to the allegation by the PDP that he masterminded the rigging of the just concluded local government election in favour of the ruling All Progressive Congress in the state, said the PDP couldn’t have won a single seat if the election was not free and fair.
‘The ruling party is even magnanimous to have allowed the opposition party to win the four local government councils declared so far by the state electoral body.
Sani, who disclosed in an interview with journalists shortly after the State Congress of the party, said if the APC government was out to rig the election, the state would have adopted the manual voting and manipulate the poll the way other states do across the country.
He insisted that the outcome of the poll had driven the final nail into the coffin of the opposition party in the state, saying that “PDP is dead.”
“Some of us are really disappointed with some of the utterances of the PDP with regards to the outcome of the Local Council election in the state.
“You and I know that when election into local government is conducted in Nigeria, most opposition party cannot get even a single councillor but, I think in the case of the state (Kaduna), the opposition even won some seats.
“I think, the PDP is not fair to the governor and our government because we are able to conduct the most freest election in the history of not even Kaduna State, but Nigeria; because this is an electronic voting that one can not even manipulate; you cannot rig election.
“If we really want to rig the election, we wouldn’t have gone through electronic voting system. We would have adopted the manual voting that every other states went through in the past.
“But I think seriously that the PDP are ungrateful to what we have done for them. In fact, I am even surprised that they won four local government areas because for me, PDP is dead in Kaduna State.”
Sani also noted that his party would challenge the outcome of the election in Southern part of the state where the opposition won four local government councils.
“In some of the local government areas they won, we are still going to court to contest them because I don’t believe that the party existed in any local government area in the state and I have my reasons,” he added.
On the 2019 general elections, he said the governor’s performance which he said was unprecedented in the history of the state, would speak for him.
Saying that no governor in the history of state had carried 10 percent of what el-Rufai had done so far in the state, Sani predicted that the APC would beat the opposition even with a wide margin both in the state and federal levels.
The former presidential aide added, “What our governor has done in the last three years is unprecedented in the history of the state in terms of development.
“When you look at what he has done in education, healthcare infrastructure, you will really agree with me that no governor in the state has even done 10 per cent of what he has done so far.
“I will tell you without any fear of contradictions that APC will win the election come 2019. I don’t believe that the PDP will even come close because the party only exist in few local government of the state.
“They don’t even exist in zone 1(Northern Kaduna zone); they are not even strong in zone two (Kaduna Central); they only exist in few local government in zone three(Southern Kaduna). So, I don’t see how they can win election in Kaduna State.”
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