2027: Zamfara APC crisis deepens as Shinkafi disputes primary outcome

Fresh contention has emerged wrong the All Progressives Congress, APC, successful Zamfara State aft senatorial aspirant, Dr. Sani Abdullahi Shinkafi, denied withdrawing from the Zamfara North Senatorial superior election.

Shinkafi, successful a missive addressed to the APC National Chairman, Prof. Nentawe Yilwatda, rejected claims that helium stepped down for a statement campaigner up of the party’s May 19 superior election.

He maintained that helium neither withdrew from the contention nor issued immoderate connection indicating his withdrawal.

“I did not retreat from the senatorial race, did not constitute immoderate missive that I stepped down, and did not marque immoderate backstage oregon nationalist connection that I withdrew from the primary,” helium stated.

The aspirant alleged that immoderate influential figures wrong the enactment orchestrated his exclusion from the superior process.

According to him, aspirants successful Zamfara State were informed that President Bola Ahmed Tinubu had directed each senatorial aspirants to measurement down for serving senators, a determination helium described arsenic arbitrary.

Shinkafi argued that the alleged statement violated provisions of the Electoral Act 2026 relating to enactment primaries and statement candidacy.

He besides warned that the APC risked repeating the in...