APC set to reclaim Zamfara in 2023 – Gov’ship aspirant

A former governorship aspirant on the platform of the All Progressives Congress (APC) 20219 in Zamfara state, Hon. Aminu Sani Jaji, has expressed confidence that his party will surely reclaim the state from the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) come 2023 election.

Jaji, a former Chairman, House Committee on Internal Security said despite the protest vote against APC in 2019 PDP in the state PDP got only 180,000 votes while APC pulled about 600,000 votes.

Speaking to newsmen in Abuja on the recent reconciliation among factions of APC in Zamfara state, Jaji also denied the allegation. that about N100 million was paid as bribe for Senator Kabiru Marafa to collapse its structure into the mainstream APC in the state. 

Jaji said: “Democracy is about peoples mandate. Going by the 2019 general elections, the PDP got 180,000 votes, including the protest votes while the APC got almost 600,000 votes. I can say confidently that we are going to take it because instead of our people to decamp to the PDP, it is the PDP supporters that are decamping to the APC. 

“So you can see we are already reducing the 180,000 votes scored by the PDP even before 2023. As we speak the protest votes is no longer there because are now united and working as a family. So the PDP is in power in Zamfara not because it was based on the peoples mandate. They are there because the court mandated them to be in power. Its just a court mandate they are enjoying for now.”

On the allegation of bribery, the former lawmaker said: “They know that Zamfara is not for PDP. It’s just a matter of time. They know that in the 2023 general election, the governor and all his appointees would be sent packing.

“Going by the 2019 general elections, the PDP got 180,000 votes, including the protest votes while the APC got almost 600,000 votes. I can say confidently that we are going to take it because instead of our people to decamp to the PDP, it is the PDP supporters that are decamping to the APC. 

“So you can see we are already reducing the 180,000 votes scored by the PDP even before 2023. As we speak the protest votes is no longer there because we are now united and working as a family. 

“So the PDP is in power in Zamfara not because it was based on the peoples mandate. They are there because the court mandated them to be in power. It’s just a court mandate they are enjoying for now,” he said.

When asked for his view on the saying that APC might not exist after the tenure of President Muhammadu Buhari, Jaji said: “I don’t agree with such persons because there was politics before Buhari.  And of course it will continue after Buhari. 

“I was in ANPP before APC so I am still in the party. So it is not about the platform. People make the platform not the platform making the people. If Buhari leaves and we strongly believe that we can continue with APC we will do so. But there is even no guarantee that APC will continue. 

“As things stand for now, I am confident that the APC will retain power in 2023. This is because the present caretaker committee are already trying to resolve all the issues in the party. Including wooing those that left the party to return. Former Speaker or the House Yakubu Dogara left the party for so many reasons and now he is in support of APC. And there are so many people like him. Even Dave Umahi who was a PDP governor defected to the APC so.”

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