How APC won Zamfara elections in 24 hours, Gov. Yari explains

Governor Abdulaziz Yari of Zamfara has attributed the successes
recorded by the All Progressives Congress during the February 23
and March 9 general elections in the state to ‘divine
intervention,’ despite the party’s crisis.

Yari disclosed this when he fielded questions from State House
correspondents in Abuja on Friday.

The News Agency of Nigeria reports that the APC was allowed to
field candidates for all the elections in the state just a week
before the first day of 2019 general elections (February 23) when a
Court of Appeal in Sokoto, Sokoto State, reversed an earlier
decision of a lower court, which had banned the party from the
elections.

The Zamfara State Collation Officer, Prof. Kabir Bala of the
Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria, had announced that the APC
presidential candidate, Muhammadu Buhari, won the February 23
presidential election in the state with 438,682 votes; while the
candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party, Atiku Abubakar, garnered
125,423 votes.

Bala also disclosed that the APC won the three senatorial seats
and the seven seats in the House of Representatives from the state
in the February 23 presidential and parliamentary elections.

He said the APC governorship candidate won the state
governorship election with 534,541 to defeat Bello Muhammad
Mutawalle of the PDP who got 189,452. The APC also won all the 24
seats in the Zamfara State House of Assembly.

Yari, who spoke to State House correspondents in Abuja on
Friday, said he was happy with the outcome of the elections, saying
that it was God that gave this political victory to the APC in the
state.

He said: “You know the turmoil that Zamfara elections put on
Nigeria — disagreements upon disagreements, from the party to court
and then to the Independent National Electoral Commission.

“Then, we went back to court and finally under 24 hours, we were
cleared and we were back on the ballot box.

“Only God has done this and given us the victory.

“I am very happy with the outcome of the elections. I also want
to appreciate my people, despite the fact that some people felt I
was carried away by the activities at the centre, insinuating I
abandoned the seat, especially with the security problem, but the
people are aware of what the administration has been doing and they
appreciate it.

“Despite the daily attacks, the security agencies were up and
doing and their presence in the state was well appreciated by the
people.

“They also appreciated the efforts of Mr. President which took
us to where we are. Like I said only God could have done it.’’

The governor also disclosed that he had succeeded in reconciling
all the aggrieved APC aspirants in the state.

(NAN)