An announcement made by a former Zamfara State Governor, Senator Ahmed Yerima has sparked controversy within the state chapter of the All Progressives Congress.
Yarima, had in an interview with newsmen in Gusau on Sunday that those that didn’t register as get together members afresh have been ineligible to participate in get together actions.
He stated, “Any member of the APC who didn’t register afresh on account of Governor Matawalle’s defection to APC will neither vote, no be voted for in any future election.”
In response, the state APC caretaker committee chairman, Alhaji Lawal Liman, on Monday, dismissed the previous governor’s declare as “baseless and unfounded.”
Liman, who addressed a press convention on the get together’s Secretariat in Gusau, stated, “Yarima’s assertion is a violation of APC structure.
“I wish to draw the eye of the general public, particularly our get together members of some misguided utterances of former Senator Yarima as broadly reported by the media.
“Yarima claimed that, henceforth, anyone who has not renewed his register with the brand new decampees is not going to be thought of as APC member and therefore, he can neither vote nor be voted for in any of the get together congresses and subsequent elections”.
“For the avoidance of doubt, let me clearly inform him (Yarima) that, APC in Zamfara has already registered about 770,000 members and that register remains to be talked about by every of the 147 wards in accordance with provision of our get together structure article 9.4.
“That is additionally crystal clear that, going by article 9.5, of the APC structure, no membership of the get together could be terminated besides by dying, resignation, expulsion or procurement of membership card of one other political get together, accepting political appointment of opposition get together or opposition authorities.
“Subsequently, the deceptive assertion by Yarima that the membership of 770,000 APC members is annulled just isn’t solely unfounded however an try and disorganize, disunite and mock the get together whereas deceiving most people”.
Liman maintained that, different governors had defected to APC earlier than Governor Bello Matawalle however the get together register of their states weren’t cancelled.
