Zamfara APC main: ‘My mandate cannot be stolen’ – Senator Kaura

Senator Tijjani Yahaya Kaura has insisted that his mandate can’t be taken away from him following his emergence because the All Progressives Congress, APC, candidate for Zamfara North Senatorial District.

Kaura made the assertion throughout a press convention at his residence in Kaura Namoda, the place he alleged that the chairman of the get together’s main election committee was taken to an undisclosed location by people he described as anti-democratic components.

According to the senator, the chairman was kidnapped earlier than saying a end result declaring Senator Sahabi Ya’u the winner.

He claimed that almost all members of the committee rejected the announcement and collectively declared him the winner of the train.

The dispute adopted the recent APC main ordered by the Court of Appeal in Sokoto after it upheld a Federal High Court judgment nullifying the sooner train over alleged irregularities.

However, the APC returning officer, Alhaji Sani Abdullahi, subsequently declared Kaura the winner of the rerun with 16,758 votes. Sahabi Ya’u polled 1,465 votes, whereas Abdullahi Sani Shinkafi scored 1,447 votes.

Kaura described the alleged abduction as an try to undermine the electoral course of and dismissed the opposing camp’s declare that Sahabi Ya’u had gained.

He urged political stakeholders to respect what he described because the folks’s mandate and the end result introduced by the committee members.