Kaduna APC senatorial aspirants kick, seek cancellation of primaries

Aggrieved aspirants of the All Progressives Congress (APC) from the 3 senatorial districts successful Kaduna State on Tuesday condemned and rejected the process and result of the party’s senatorial superior elections, alleging wide irregularities and violations of enactment guidelines successful producing candidates.

Led by erstwhile Senator of Kaduna South, Danjuma La’ah, alongside Michael Ayuba Auta, who besides contested the senatorial spot from Zone III, and Yusuf Bala Ikara from Zone I, the aggrieved aspirants staged a protestation soon aft addressing a property league astatine the Nigeria Union of Journalists (NUJ) secretariat successful Kaduna.

The protesters, who arrived with hundreds of supporters, called connected the National Working Committee (NWC) of the APC to cancel the primaries conducted successful Kaduna North, Kaduna Central and Kaduna South senatorial districts, and behaviour caller nonstop primaries nether the supervision of the party’s nationalist enactment that volition nutrient a credible and transparent exercise.

Addressing journalists connected behalf of the aspirants, Senator Danjuma La’ah alleged that the workout violated provisions of the Electoral Act 2022 and the APC constitution.

They peculiarly faulted the Kaduna South senatorial primary, which produced Senator Sunday Marshall Katung arsenic winner, claiming that the process lacked transparency and failed to travel approved procedures for producing an acceptable candi...