Yari partly responsible for election postponement - Marafa
Governor Abdulaziz Yari of Zamfara State is partly responsible for the sabotage that led to the postponement of the presidential and National Assembly elections earlier slated for Saturday, Sen Kabiru Garba Marafa has said.
Marafa who is the chairman of the Senate Committee on Petroleum (downstream) said in a statement in Abuja, yesterday, that Yari had openly bragged that elections would not hold if his APC candidates in Zamfara were not included in the ballot paper.
INEC had cited problems of logistics as the major reason why it postponed both the presidential and national assembly elections.
“During the grand finale of his illegal campaign rallies in his hometown, Talata Mafara, Zamfara on Friday, 8th February, he rained abuses and said unprintable things on the person of INEC Chairman Prof. Mahmood and swore that unless his candidates are enlisted to contest, there won’t be elections in Zamfara State and the entire country. Now it has come to pass, what next?
“I’m calling on the authorities to hold Yari and his accomplices responsible for this treasonable sabotage against the country, Nigerians and humanity in general. Just search on the internet, including YouTube, you will see the stories and videos of where Yari stated emphatically that unless his candidates are accepted, elections won’t hold in Zamfara State and Nigeria,” he said.
Marafa recalled that, “When Yari conducted illegal primaries, I drew the attention of Nigerians and the world on the dangers inherent in accepting that abuse of our laws, but instead of being reprimanded, Yari went ahead to the courts to legalise his illegality. Today, the APC has abandoned its earlier position, that its only had a consensus, to supporting Yari’s illegal election. This is very sad and unfortunate.”