One of the aggrieved aspirants of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in the just concluded primaries in Kaduna State, Former Assistant Comptroller General (ACG) Customs Service, Malam Bashir Abubakar has agreed to honour the invitation for a meeting with the declared winner, Senator Uba Sani.
Uba Sani was declared the winner after polling 1, 149 votes, while a former Assistant Controller General (ACG) of Customs, Bashir Abubakar scored 37 votes and Alhaji Mahmud Sani Sha’aban polled 10 votes.
Addressing journalists, shortly after a meeting with members of his campaign team at Royal Blue Hotel, Kaduna, on Tuesday night, Abubakar explained, ” I decided to call my campaign team and legal team to come with resolutions in view of what transpired before, during and after the primaries.”
According to him, immediately after the primary, Senator Uba reached out to him for a possible meeting.
”The Senator who was declared winner of the primary had communicated with me a day after the election, also his campaign DG and some senior government officials have reached out to me on the need for a meeting.
”Thus, I decided to reach out to my campaign team. We held a meeting today (Tuesday) and it was successfully concluded.
According to the governorship aspirant, his campaign team had agreed to sit with Senator Uba Sani and his team and listen to them in order to see how to forge ahead.
He added, ‘whatever discussion we have with the senator we will let members of the media know about it.”
He also said it was the resolution of the campaign council to convey all complaints in writing to appropriate authorities.
“Soon after the election, we sat with my Director-General, James Bawa Magaji, a former Deputy Governor of the state and decided to write to the appeal committee at the national secretariat. We have copied the party chairman, INEC and security agencies.
“On behalf of my campaign team, we are calling on the management of our great party to look into the grievances of our people who participated in primaries. Doing so will unite the party and make it stronger.
Commenting on the primary, Abubakar remarked, “On the day of the election, we were called to the party office in Kaduna for briefing and we were briefed about the dos and don’ts. It was at that time the list of delegates was given to us and the election was to take place in an hour. The entire process became a charade and child play.
“We decided, however, to participate in the election, bearing in mind that our over 3,000 delegates were not on the list.
“The election screening process started and as expected, none of my over 3,000 delegates was allowed to entire the Yar’Adua Hall Murtala Square where the election took place.
”We allowed them to do their drama and the supporters of the government delegate we’re able to give me 37 votes to finish second.”
“We are afraid of the consequences that not doing the proper thing might cause.”