By Oluwaseun Sonde
President Muhammadu Buhari's aide on New Media, Bashir Ahmad has rejected the proceeds of the primary election conducted on 27th of May, 2022 to elect the All Progressives Congress (APC) flagbearer for the position of member House of Representatives for Kano Albasu/Gaya/Ajingi Federal Constituency.
Bashir Ahmad who is also an aspirant, contested for the APC House of Representatives for Kano Albasu/ Gaya/ Ajingi Federal Constituency, made this known in a statement released on his social media platform on Saturday.
Ahmad, after contesting against the lawmaker who currently represents the constituency in the House of Representatives, Mahmud Gaya, was defeated with 16 votes in his favor while Gaya amassed 109 votes, making Gaya to secure the ruling party’s ticket to seek a second term in the 2023 elections.
According to Bashir Ahmad, "I offered myself to serve my constituents as best I can and I would have been willing to accept whatever outcome if it was free, fair and credible.
"I am sad to say that what ensued at the venue of the primaries highly threatens the credibility and integrity the APC has built over two political cycles. It is therefore a great disservice to my people and our great party, to be silent about such injustice.
"To the best of my knowledge, election at the primaries stage requires delegates to cast their votes and a winner emerges with the majority votes. It therefore implies that there could not have been any voting process that occurred considering majority of the delegates were neither allowed to vote nor even granted access to the venue".
Ahmad added, "No document that supposedly validates the election was signed by my agents because they were also denied access to the voting area.
"On my arrival to the venue as an aspirant too, I was denied access to the voting area. My supporters who were around the premises for the primaries resisted the unjust treatment I was given and attempted insisting on my entrance into the voting area.
"No document that supposedly validates the election was signed by my agents because they were also denied access to the voting area.
He therefore called on stakeholders of the party, APC, to as a matter of urgency, save the reputation of the party by insisting on the members of the electoral committee to conduct a fresh, free and fair election.
Ahmad commended and extended profound gratitude to the delegates who despite the ill-treatment, refused to be intimidated by anyone. "I would also like to send my appreciation to my supporters who have always been with me from the onset. To be silent about the injustice we have experienced, is to disappoint those supporters.
He implored all his supporters to be calm and remain the law-abiding citizens he know them to be because he still have faith in APC that this spectacular blunder, experienced on the 27th of May, 2022 shall be annulled and credible primary election shall be conducted.
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