The member representing Kazaure/Roni/Yankwashi/Gwiwa federal constituency in Jigawa State at the House of Representatives, Muhammad Gudaji, has accused Governor Muhammad Badaru of planning to sabotage the All Progressives Congress (APC) in the 2023 general elections.
Gudaji was defeated in the APC primary election by Mukhtar Zanna, the local government chairperson for the Kazaure council area.
Zanna got 89 votes, his closest rival, Muhammad Zakari, got 70 votes while the incumbent, Mr Gudaji, got 26 votes.
Muhammad Alhassan, a retired army officer and former Commissioner for Agriculture in the state, got eight votes while Abdullahi Mainasara scored seven votes
Gudaji said in a statement that he had earlier written a petition to the National Electoral Commission (INEC) over the alleged injustice done to him and what he claimed was a violation of the Electoral Act in the election of the party’s delegates.
“I am announcing the injustice done to me by my Governor on delegates congresses on which I wrote petitions since and today I directed the undemocratically elected delegates not to vote for me in the just concluded Hausa drama (Primary Election).
“I called it Hausa drama (The Primary Election) because, according to amended Electoral Act, they just staged a drama for which, in the near future, they will pay,” he said.
The lawmaker said he sent petitions to INEC and the headquarters of the APC, alleging that there was no congress or delegate elections in Kazaure/Roni/Gwiwa and Yankwashi federal constituency.
“I am aware that Jigawa state Governor is witch-hunting me too much in spite of the loyalty I always showed him,” Gudaji alleged, saying, therefore, “For this injustice, I am here to inform all my supporters and lovers that I will follow any procedures to look for my democratic and constitutional right”.
