Following the results presented by the All Progressives Congress (APC) National Committee for the primary elections of the National Assemblies in Zamfara State, an aspirant who contested for the Shinkafi/Zurmi federal constituency, Hon. Usman Ajiya Shinkafi, has strongly condemned consensus as optional.
Speaking to newsmen in Gusau, Zamfara State capital, Shinkafi, who is a former Zamfara Director General on Security and Intelligence Gathering, cried that he was not in any way contacted to seek his opinion regarding the primaries by either the leaders of the APC or the assigned committee by the party’s national headquarters to run the exercise.
According to him, the results were only drafted in order to please some aspirants with leaders in power at the top, but not eventually a proper channel to help promote the party’s popularity to win the 2027 elections in the state, because the contestants are not willingly chosen by the people to be represented.
“I am still contesting, I do not care about their decision to opt for consensus as the only way of producing the APC candidates to contest during the 2027 general elections, although I am yet to decide what to do, but whatever my decision shall be, shall be lawful”, Ajiya has insisted.
The aspirant further informed his teeming supporters that he is still in the contest for the position of a member of the House of Representatives on the platform of the APC and would not defect to any political party.
“From the beginning, I renounced my intention to contest because of my mentor and political godfather, Mahmud Aliyu Shinkafi, who declared his ambition to aspire for the position of Senate, and I did not want to show my ambition just to avoid grudges that the two positions come from the same local government area, Shinkafi.
“But, being that Mahmud Shinkafi was disqualified in the primary elections process by the assigned committee, the soul returned to my ambition, which I am out for and would not renounce it, for this, I am calling on my supporters, to remain calm and law-abiding as I will continue to pursue their seized mandate”, Ajiya has assured.
