The State Chairman of the party, Mas’ud Doguwa, declared the stand of the party while addressing journalists in Kano on Tuesday. Mr Doguwa described the election that was conducted by committee headed by Ezeogu Emeka-Onuaha as null and void.
He explained that they had been in the PDP for quite some time and were conversant with the technicalities involved in conducting primary elections.
“With this attitude of impunity of enforcing candidates on members of the party, the national leadership of the party is doing nothing but paving way for the All progressives Congress (APC) to win elections in Kano State, “he said.
He said a court had ordered a substantial order that the party’s caretakers were operating illegally, yet they went ahead and conducted the governorship primaries, saying members of the party would not accept such illegality
The news conference which was attended by aspirants for state House of Assembly and National Assembly, described the poll as ‘Kangaroo elections’ and unacceptable. The chairman, therefore, urged the National leadership of the party to ensure justice and fairness for the survival of the party in the state.
The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that Sen. Rabiu Kwankwaso’s son in-law, Abba Kabiru Yusuf, emerged as PDP governorship candidate in the state in the primary election that was conducted on Monday night.
The primary election held at the Lugard Avenue, personal residence of Kwankwaso, was conducted by the electoral committee constituted by the party National Working Committee (NWC) headed by Ezeogu Emeka-Onouha.
Rabiu Musa Kwankwaso, leader of the Kwankwasiyya political Movement has dismissed the widespread news accusing him of nepotism for anointing his in-law, Abba Kabiru Yusuf, as the candidate to contest for governorship under the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) in the state saying, “he is not my direct son-in-law”.
It would be recalled that In an interview monitored on the BBC Hausa service on Tuesday, Sen. Kwankwaso explained that the selection was made to avoid a repetition of what happened during the last dispensation where the Kano Kwankwasiyya movement backed Dr. Abdullahi Ganduje being the most senior in age, qualification and other services records to become governor only for him to betray them and stab them in the back.
He explained that those accusing him of selecting his in-law are only mischievous as Abba is not the husband of the daughter he gave birth to but the husband to a member of his extended family. He said he comes from a very large and extended family where anyone of them can meet and get married to anyone they meet anywhere and will not be refused.
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