Senator Marafa a toothless dog, yet to recover from dementia — Zamfara APC

The All Progressives Congress (APC) in Zamfara State has described Senator Kabiru Garba Marafa’s recent threat to reduce President Bola Tinubu’s votes by one million as the outburst of a toothless dog, yet to recover from dementia.

In a statement issued by the Zamfara state APC chairman Alhaji Tukur Umar Danfulani in Gusau on Wednesday evening, disclosed that Marafa could not even win his constituency elections talk less of securing the votes which largely came through the faith the electorate have in the party and in Matawalle, Yari and other respected party leaders in the state. 

The statement reads in part: “As a political party, the APC in Zamfara has come across an interview granted by former Senator Kabiru Garba Marafa threatening to reduce one million votes tally from President Bola Ahmed Tinubu votes which he claimed to secure to win the 2023 presidential election in the northwest for President Bola Ahmed Tinubu and that he will stop the President from getting such votes in 2027.

“First, I would like to address that by telling the Nigerian public that apart from being disgraced from the Senate by his constituents in 2019 that he has not recovered from his dementia.

“Even in the 2023 polls where he made uncorroborated calls on the 2023 elections, it should be noted that Marafa could not even win his constituency in the same elections talkless of securing the votes which largely came through the faith the electorate have in the party and in Matawalle, Yari and other respected party leaders in the state. 

“Matawalle, the present Minister of State for Defence now, served as the Tinubu/Shatima Presidential Campaigns Council for the whole of northwest and initially to double as the Zamfara State coordinator but seeing that the work would be overwhelming, suggested the Zamfara coordination on Marafa which was reluctantly approved because he (Marafa) did not merit it.

“Having lost everywhere, Marafa who insisted he be given a high-ranking position in the government, began to torment one problem or the other, sometimes using alliances with other troublemakers who would also leave him immediately they discovered his selfish motives.

“APC supporters in Zamfara have grown wiser and more loyal to political leaders like Matawalle, Senator Yari and many others who carry them along, which is why the party won the just concluded Kaura Namoda South State House of Assembly bye election with a wide margin against the runner up (PDP) without any input from the likes of Marafa who tried to sabotage APC’s chances of winning through anti-party maneuvers that didn’t work for them.

“It’s laughable that Marafa who couldn’t win even his ward of Yandoton daji or his local government of Tsafe or his central constituency, could boast of reducing one million votes out of President Bola Ahmed’s votes of 2023. 

“So we the people of Zamfara know that he’s just a lame dog that can only bark but without any tooth to bite. 

“Marafa should know that nemesis of his deeds in form of betrayal and deceit will continue to haunt him because even in 2011 he was sponsored by the same Yari he is now envying to win his Senatorial seat.

“Let’s put the records straight, what is expected from Senator Marafa during the interview is to tell the world how many votes he secured himself and that of his opponent in the last election before talking about reducing President Bola Ahmed votes while peddling lies and propaganda that are dead on arrival. 

“His unguarded utterances are just out of frustration of losing election and his inability to secure appointments in President Bola Ahmed Tinubu administration. 

“Ordinarily, if not because he touched the President in his uncivilised manner, we would not have responded to a lower and rejected politician like him,” The statement concluded.

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