Buhari’s aide rejects result, calls Kano Reps primaries ‘spectacular’ blunder

The Personal Assistant to President Muhammadu Buhari on New Media, Bashir Ahmad, who was aspiring to represent Ajingi/Albasu/Gaya Federal Constituency of Kano State in the House of Representatives, has rejected the result of the primary election, over alleged manipulation and use of thugs against him and his supporters.

This was contained via a statement he personally issued, a copy of which was made available to The Star on Saturday.

Ahmad alleged that delegates and himself were denied access to the voting area and his supporters’ lives were under threat.

He stated: “I hereby categorically reject the process and proceeds of the primary election conducted on 27th of May, 2022 to elect the All Progressives Congress (APC) flagbearer for the position of member House of Representatives for Albasu/Gaya/Ajingi Federal Constituency.

“I offered myself to serve my constituents as best I can and I would have been willing to accept whatever outcome if it was free, fair, and credible.

“On my arrival to the venue as an aspirant too, I was denied access to the voting area. My supporters who were around the premises for the primaries resisted the unjust treatment I was given and attempted insisting on my entrance into the voting area.”

He alleged that no Election took place and no electoral documents were accessed by his agents who were supposed to protect his interest at the election.

“To the best of my knowledge, election at the primaries stage requires delegates to cast their votes and a winner emerges with the majority votes. It, therefore, implies that there could not have been any voting process that occurred considering majority of the delegates were neither allowed to vote nor even granted access to the venue.

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“No document that supposedly validates the election was signed by my agents because they were also denied access to the voting area,” Ahmad added.

The presidential aide further said what happened during the primary election would negatively affect the reputation of the APC, describing the election as “spectacular blunder”.

He said: “To be silent about the injustice we have experienced, is to disappoint those supporters. I implore all to be calm and remain the law-abiding citizens I know you to be because I still have faith in the APC that this spectacular blunder, we have experienced on the 27th of May, 2022 shall be annulled and credible primary election shall be conducted.

“I am sad to say that what ensued at the venue of the primaries highly threatens the credibility and integrity the APC has built over two political cycles. It is therefore a great disservice to my people and our great party, to be silent about such injustice.”

Ahmad, therefore, called on the APC to nullify the election and order a free, fair, and credible primary election in the area.

The Star