Saturday-12-11-2022.
~By Jethro Daniel.
The chairman PDP media team kachia local government, Comr Jethro Daniel described the rumours going round in the social media that the kaduna state chapter of the peoples democratic party PDP, sold the parties ticket to Usman Ibrahim Sardaunan Badarawa by conducting the the fresh primary election of the kaduna central Senatorial seat as directed by the high Court.
It could be recalled that, the Fed high Court seating in kaduna has ealir last week order the people democratic party to conduct a fresh primary election following the suit filed by Usman Ibrahim Sardaunan Badarawa challenging the legality of the party primary election that produced Adamu Lawal Mr Lah as the party’s flag bearer for kaduna central Senatorial seat.
Comr Jethro Daniel said, i disagree with those people with the opinion that, Sardaunan Badarawa used money to get the support of the state chapter of the party;
Jethro said, number one, its not the duty of the state chapter of the party to conduct the Senatorial primary election, its not their duty to set up the election committee, its not their duty to set up appeal committee, talk more of even setting a date for the re-run of the election, it is the duty of the national to do all that.
He went ahead to say, when the first primary election was conducted, the state party continued to work with Mr Lah as it’s candidate, no one heard the state chapter of the PDP parading Sardaunan Badarawa as its candidate.
So how can someone linked that problem to the state chapter of the party?
Those with the opinion that the state leadership could have done much to settled the issue internally by settling the two as their children, i agree with that, but one should know that still until the two candidates agree on the settlement, the electoral law does not give the party the power to force someone to step down for anybody.
Secondly, the state chairman during a press released yesterday, made it clear that, they don’t have anything against Mr Lah, he said the national organised the election not the state, and after the first primaries, at the state level, when Sardauna wrote an appeal to the national that there was an over-voting, they made efforts to settle the matter by setting up a committee under the Chairmanship of Sen Aziz, but the person with the ticket refused to appear before the committee.
Also Former vice president now the party’s presidential candidate, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar set up another committee aimed at resolving the issue outside the court, to be chaired by Gov Okowa the party’s vice presidential candidate, among the committee members is the kaduna state Gubernatorial Candidate, Rt Hon Isah Ashiru Kudan, all of them appeared on the agreed date, but the person with the ticket, failed to appear before the committee,
He also said, after the first primary election, Sardauna wrote a petition to the national that there was an over-voting, the national set up a committee to come and look into the petition, they came, their duty is to accommodate them and provide a place for them to do their work and we did that, after they took their report to national, the national said they agreed with their report that there was an over-voting, the national set another date and another committee for a fresh election, the committee came and the same national also withdrawn the committee that they realised another thing, there was no over voting, they didn’t write to the state and the candidates that they have withdrawn the re-run again, so Sardauna used the ealir later sent to both the aspirants and the state chapter of the party cancelling the first primary to the court and that’s what the court used to passed the Judgment.
Hassan Hyat said, after the national received the court order and reached out to them with all the aspirants for a re-run on Monday, some of the aspirants said the noticed was too short for them and decided to withdraw from the race, Mr Lah acknowledged getting the noticed by replying to the state secretary with an insult, they also heard that he, Mr Lah went for Appeal, but uptil the day and time for the election, they didn’t get any court order from the upper court, and the national didn’t tell them they received any court order stopping them from conducting the re-run.
The state PRO also came out on radio to say the same thing, the spokesman to the state chairman, Mr Edward Auta also came out on radio and clear the air on that, the state chairman also came out to clear the air on that.
All this, Mr Lah is yet to come out to debunked all the claims from the state chapter of the party and the state chairman.
Comr Jethro wonder how some people are till going round tarnishing the name of the state chairman who has nothing to do with that election, because he’s not even from the zone.
Comr Jethro described Hassan Hyat as an elder statesman from his local government whom they hold in high esteem and they can’t fold their arms and watch some people tarnishing his name for their personal interest in the name of politics.
He thereby, called on Mr Lah to come out and clear the air the way the chairman came out to clear his name and also tender an open apology to the state chairman.
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