All Progressives Congress (APC) gubernatorial hopeful, Senator Kabiru Garba Marafa, Thursday threw his weight behind the decision of the National Working Committee (NWC) of the APC on cancellation of Wednesday’s governorship primary in Zamfara State.

The decision followed the recommendation of Professor Abu Fari led governorship primary for Zamfara state.

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Marafa who is one of the aspirants in a statement blamed Governor Abdul Aziz Yari for the violence that erupted in some parts of the state during the exercise.

He noted that the insistence for the continuation of the exercise despite the violence orchestrated by those who should have ensured peace was the height of lawlessness and wickedness.

He said, “Yari set the state on fire just to perfect his plot to upturn the people’s will and force his stooge on the party and by extension the state with the sole aim of continuing with his misrule through proxy after May 29, 2019.”

Marafa said that the primary election was postponed thrice and that after an exhaustive meeting with all security agencies, nine governorship aspirants, INEC and the Committee sent from Abuja on Tuesday, it was unanimously agreed that the election should hold yesterday, Wednesday.

He noted that shortly after the distribution of election materials, the aspirant agents raised the alarm that ballot papers given to them were not up to 10% of the registered party members in their wards.

Marafa added that the development forced the committee chairman to summon an emergency meeting in the office of the Commissioner of Police to address the issue.

He said, “In attendance at the meeting were all the aspirants and heads of other security agencies. The chairman called the National chairman of APC, Chief Adams Oshiomhole who spoke individually with all the aspirants. In the end all the aspirants agreed that the ballot papers should be set aside and direct method of people queuing behind the candidate of their choice be adopted.

Marafa said that the National Chairman thereafter gave approval that the system be employed.

He said that “the election went on smoothly in many wards and results started coming in, then suddenly violence erupted in major towns where desperate government officials organized thugs to attack party members especially women.”

The development, he said, forced the chairman of the election committee to quickly cancel the election to halt the crisis.

“It is pertinent to mention here that the governor’s candidate lost in all the wards where elections held.

“Hours after the cancellation desperate Governor Yari went on air to announce that election will continue today (Thursday) without even condoling and sympathizing with the families of the deceased and the injured persons,” he said

He urged the members of the party and the entire people of the state to remain calm abide by the decision of the national committee and await further announcement.

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