APC primary will not hold – Gov Yari

Zamfara Governor, Abdulaziz Yari has declared that the All Progressives Congress (APC) governorship primaries in the state would not hold as scheduled.

He said the exercise would be suspended indefinitely unless the party’s National Working Committee followed the documented guidelines for the conduct of the exercise.

Addressing a press conference in Gusau on Monday, Yari told the committee constituted by the national headquarters to act on some infractions surrounding the conduct of the exercise.

He said: “As a leader of the party in the state and the chief security officer of the state, I’m telling all the stakeholders that the election slated for tommorow 2nd of October will not hold and we don’t know when it will hold.

“The committee sent by the stakeholders has grossly violated the 20-page document containing the party’s guidelines for the election, therefore there would be no election until the committee is ready to work with the document,” he added.

Governor Yari noted that the guidelines said that only a registered member of the party is eligible to vote and the party ward chairman and his secretary should participate in the process but the the committee jetisonned the provision for reason best known to them.

“I am one of the founding fathers of this party and I worked hard for its success. There is going to be a bloodshed tomorrow if the election is held in that way and and I’m the one to provide security for the peaceful conduct of the exercise,” he said.