Senator Yari not sponsoring Zamfara ADC guber candidate — APC chieftain

An All Progressives Congress, APC, chieftain, Sani Abdullahi Shinkafi, has denied claims that erstwhile Zamfara State Governor Abdul’aziz Yari is sponsoring the African Democratic Congress, ADC, governorship candidate, Bilyaminu Yusuf Shinkafi.

In a connection connected Saturday, Shinkafi said Bilyaminu was related to Yari by matrimony arsenic a relative of the erstwhile governor’s wife, a girl of the precocious Umaru Shinkafi.

He said Bilyaminu had sought the APC summons for Zamfara North Senatorial District but was not cleared by the party’s screening committee up of the 2027 elections.

He subsequently joined the ADC to prosecute his governorship ambition, Shinkafi added.

Shinkafi alleged that immoderate governmental actors were spreading the assertion to discredit Yari pursuing his assignment arsenic Director-General of President Bola Tinubu’s re-election run council.

He besides denied claims that 8 suspended members of the Zamfara State House of Assembly who precocious resigned from the APC were Yari’s governmental allies.

Senator Yari not sponsoring Zamfara ADC guber campaigner — APC chieftain