BY Rita Okonoboh
Some aspirants of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Kaduna state have agreed to withdraw court cases challenging their losses at the party’s primaries.
Speaking at a media briefing on Monday after meeting with Uba Sani, the Kaduna APC governorship candidate, the aspirants also agreed to support all the party’s candidates during the 2023 elections.
In his remarks, Ishaq Sale, chairman of the Kaduna APC aspirants’ forum, said members of the forum will work to ensure victory for the party.
Sale had expressed interest in representing Zaria constituency in the Kaduna house of assembly.
He, however, added that discussions are ongoing with Sani Sha’aban and Bashir Abubakar, APC governorship aspirants, to also seek their support.
“We just concluded a meeting with our gubernatorial candidate, senator Uba Sani. We all know his capacity. We all know the kind of person he is,” he said.
“He is a person that will ensure that everyone is carried along. The outcome of the meeting is that we have come together as a forum to collapse all our structures into one and support our party’s candidates, from Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu to senator Uba Sani and all others, to ensure that all of them emerge victorious in the forthcoming general election.
“By this, we are telling the general public that APC in Kaduna state is one and that the aspirants have come together to ensure that all our candidates emerge victorious.
“We are proud to tell you that members of this forum are now ready to step down the cases they initiated in courts in the shortest possible time.
“So, we are calling on other aspirants who are not in attendance or who are yet to join this movement, to please come together and let us fight this battle together for us to achieve success come 2023.
“We have endorsed distinguished senator Uba Sani as our gubernatorial candidate as far as APC Kaduna state aspirants’ forum is concerned.
“We are also working tirelessly to ensure that we produce not less than 600,000 votes across the state from this forum.”
On the discussions with Sha’aban and Abubakar, who had both challenged the outcome of the governorship primary, Sale said “a logical conclusion will soon be reached and hopefully, they will also drop their cases and join the movement for APC’s victory”.
On his part, Mohammad Bello, director-general of the Uba Sani campaign council, said agreement reached with the aspirants’ forum has been “properly documented and would be fully implemented”.
He added that with the new development, all those who lost at the primaries are now “automatic members” of the governorship campaign council.
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