Ex-Minister Sambo urges review of Taraba governorship primary over alleged irregularities

Former Minister of Transport Mu’azu Jaji Sambo has called connected President Bola Tinubu and the nationalist president of the All Progressives Congress (APC) to intervene successful what helium described arsenic a weakening of interior ideology successful the Taraba State section of the party.

Sambo made the entreaty connected Saturday done his elder media aide, Dr Sam Idiagbonya, who besides called for a reappraisal of the APC governorship superior predetermination successful the state.

The APC superior predetermination committee had connected Saturday declared the incumbent governor, Dr Agbu Kefas, victor of the party’s governorship summons aft polling 166,357 votes, portion Sambo emerged archetypal runner-up with 4,110 votes.

However, Dr Idiagbonya rejected the outcome, insisting that the workout fell abbreviated of the antiauthoritarian standards the APC claims to uphold.

He said, “Politics whitethorn beryllium astir power, but adjacent powerfulness indispensable respect process.”

According to him, galore loyal APC members successful Taraba were near “betrayed, humiliated, and politically orphaned” by the behaviour of the superior election.

“What we perceived during the governorship superior predetermination was an overwhelming governmental unit overpowering interior democracy,” helium said.

Sambo alleged irregularities, exclusion of cardinal stakeholders and a deficiency of transparency, informing that nonaccomplishment to addres...