I’ll Remain In APC To Fight Yari, Support Buhari’s Re-Election —Marafa 

As the INEC deadline for the substitution of Governorship candidates ends tomorrow, December 1, 2019, the Chairman of the Senate Committee on Petroleum (Downstream), Senator Kabiru Garba Marafa [CON] (APC, Zamfara Central) has said that he would remain in the All Progressives Congress (APC) to support President Muhammadu Buhari and coordinate his 2019 re-election bid.

Recall that the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) had earlier banned the APC from submitting candidates for Governorship, National and State Assembly following the party’s inability to conduct primaries and consensus in Zamfara state, occasioned by Governor Yari’s  determination to impose candidates on Zamfara state at all cost.

Marafa, a leading Governorship aspirant in Zamfara State, said as a founding member of the APC and a close confidant of President Buhari, he will remain in the APC, even when his ambition is being threatened.

“I will remain in the APC to support and lead President Buhari’s 2019 re-election campaign  in Zamfara state and to ensure that Governor Yari fail woefully in his attempts to perpetrate injustice and impose  his moles as candidates of the party in the state.

“The facts are clear that, Gov. Yari has failed woefully and has lost the popular support of the people, he can’t win any election in Zamfara today, he therefore choose to hide under the Federal might to perpetrate criminality using his 8,500 recruited  ‘vigilante’ to rig the elections in his favour and his co – travellers.

We say No to that. I am going to remain in the APC to ensure that he and his cohorts are effectively retired.

“We have come this far together with all the people of Zamfara state, they have expressed there desire for change, they have given us their maximum support, and they have rejected Yari and all his chosen candidates.

“They have sacrificed their lives and health, some were killed while many others were injured during the botched and make-believe primaries in the state, all courtesy of Gov  Yari.”

“Having failed in his cruel attempt to impose his candidates through dubious means, he now wants to use the instrumentality of the Courts to legalise his illegalities.

“We will block him and let him know that Courts aren’t places for dumping of  charades.

“Yari organise and  conducted illegal, make believe  primaries in absolute violation of a subsisting Court Order  and the directive of our party’s National Working Committee (NWC).

“He thereafter ran to Court to give his illegalities a legal backing, forgetting that our courts are not rubber stamp.

“Courts are homes of equity and if you are going to the courts,  you must go with clean hands, ” he said.

Marafa, while thanking the people of the state for their maximum support and cooperation to him, said his decision to remain in the APC, despite all pressures was in appreciation of their tremendous support and  in their best interest.

He challenged Gov. Yari to go to another party with all his anointed candidates and contest if  he believes he is popular.

He also commended the National Chairman of the  APC, Comrade Adams Oshiomhole for respecting the court order, supporting the masses choice of direct primaries and ignoring pressures from a failed Governor.