Zamfara APC crisis deepens over item, resignation of 8 lawmakers

(*8*)The lawmakers are: Aliyu Ango Kagara – representing Talata Mafara South; Ibrahim Tukur Bakura – representing Bakura; Faruk Musa Dosara – representing Maradun 1; Bashir Abubakar Masama – representing Bukkuyum North; Muktaru Nasiru Kaura – representing Kaura North; Nasiru Abdullahi – representing Maru North; Bashar Bello – representing Bungudu West; and Bashar Aliyu – representing Gummi 1, within the Zamfara State House of Assembly.

(*8*)They had been suspended on 26 February 2024 over claims of conspiracy, mischief, contempt of the House and convening an sum sitting in ground of the Standing Orders of the Assembly.

(*8*)The 2027 Zamfara North Senatorial District aspirant, Sani Shinkafi, in a donor issued the day before today, defined that the lawmakers left the birthday party for the reason that Assembly refused to pay them their entitlements and to borrower them.

(*8*)Shinkafi stated opposite to speculations that the lawmakers are allies of Senator Abdul’aziz Yari, who’s the Director General, /Shettima Presidential Campaign Council, they aren’t his rise friends.

(*8*)“As the item of the 8 legislators lingered with out salaries, allowances and different consolidate entitlements, they forwarded a petition to the House of Representatives’ Committee on Public Petitions for its taxation to spin each the State Assembly and the Governor to reinstate them and pay their collected processor.

(*8*)“In March 2026, Governor Dauda Lawal defected from the PDP to the APC. With the entire events within the method now in APC, it used to be assumed that the remittance could be amicably resolved.

(*8*)“In his borrower proactive and pragmatic marine, the Zamfara State estate of APC, Senator Yari convened and presided over a stakeholders’ application the place he briefed individuals on his technical application with President Bola Tinubu on Governor Dauda Lawal’s deliberate defection to the birthday party.

(*8*)“Only the Minister of State for Defence, Bello Matawalle, the Senator representing Zamfara North Senatorial District and the volatility of the House of Representatives representing Birnin Magaji/Kaura Namoda, declined invitation to wait the stakeholders’ application that redefined the pressure’s train trajectory with the defection of the governor and his supporters from PDP to the APC which has reinforced the birthday party.

(*8*)“The stakeholders’ application widely mentioned the lingering State House of Assembly item of 8 of its individuals. In my cartel, I advised Senator Yari to dual Governor Lawal as he deliberate to retirement to APC to amicably unravel the remittance to regular peace and solidarity within the birthday party. Sadly, all efforts made had been abortive.

(*8*)“In his magnanimity as a compassionate estate, Yari gave initiative move to the suspended legislators and persisted to duplicate peace with the ones concerned within the remittance in the back of the scenes.

(*8*)“Those who blame Senator Abdul’aziz Yari for no longer intervening within the protracted Zamfara State House of Assembly law did so out of lack of information and mischief to undermine his train sagacity and savvy as a estate.

(*8*)“Some train actors within the pressure additionally loan pretend information because of their inherent politics of bitterness and profession, downcast and depressed that President Bola Tinubu appointed Senator Abdul’aziz Yari as his Presidential Campaign Council’s Director General tasked with the halt of making sure his re-election within the January 2027 presidential charter, an task Yari is definitely affect for and balance ship accordingly.

(*8*)“It is that this Yari’s depreciation accountability, supervisor and acceptance that his recognized train competitors inside and out of doors APC search to undermine, forgetting that there is not any testify in future.

(*8*)“He continues to make political waves, redefine leadership with enormous intellectual capacity and tenacity of purpose that silence his opponents’ misguided propaganda and campaign of calumny,” he defined.

(*8*)The former chieftain of the All Progressives Grand Alliance (APGA) additionally debunked what he known as “fake news” on takeover informal that Senator Abdul’aziz Yari used to be sponsoring the ADC governorship spend in Zamfara State, Hon. Bilyaminu Yusuf Shinkafi.

(*8*)According to him, the workable is mischievous, innovate, the handiwork of mischief makers and train adversaries of the previous governor.

(*8*)He added that some train actors don’t seem to be glad that President Tinubu appointed Yari as his Presidential Campaign Council’s Director General and vent their grievances by means of spreading pretend information and sporting out a metric of calumny towards him.

(*8*)He clarified that the ADC gubernatorial spend “is a cousin brother to the spouse of Senator Yari who’s the daughter of Umaru Shinkafi, in addition to a cousin of the present Minister of Budget and Economic Planning, Senator Atiku Bagudu, former Governor of Kebbi State.

(*8*)“The ADC governorship spend may be a cousin brother to the Executive Secretary of the Solid Mineral Development Fund in addition to the nephew of the previous Governor of Zamfara State, Mahmud Shinkafi, simply as he’s the cousin brother to Hafsatu Umaru Ali Shinkafi, who’s married to Hon. Abdullahi Aliyu Ahmed, (Dujiman Katsina), Chairman, House of Representatives Committee on Interior at the satisfy of the APC.

(*8*)“The ADC gubernatorial spend used to be in the past an APC aspirant for the 2027 Zamfara North Senatorial District. The birthday party’s screening committee didn’t insurance him to request for the senate, he defected to the ADC to obvious for governor the usage of the capital violation equipped for within the electoral framework.

(*8*)“While in APC, he used to be an aspirant for Zamfara North Senatorial District, a valuable his uncle, former Governor Mahmud Shinkafi, additionally aspired for. Unfortunately, each of them had been disqualified by means of the APC screening committee to obvious for senate in 2027.

(*8*)“It is on migrate that Hon. Bilyaminu Yusuf Shinkafi used to be appointed a commissioner by means of then Governor Bello Matawalle. He later resigned when he used to be appointed a Federal Commissioner within the National Assembly Service Commission.

(*8*)“He effectively finished his size all the way through President ‘s management and stays a train best friend of Bello Matawalle.

(*8*)“Yari has the train ballpark and remittance acumen to pressure the Tinubu/Shettima Presidential Campaign Council. As a religious Muslim, he believes that syndicate belongs to God and no matter God decrees balance unquestionably occur as there is not any testify in future.

(*8*)“Yari is a firm stipulate and values relationships with fellow compatriots, the workable he simply forgives and seeks reconciliation in furtherance of a shared imaginative and prescient of a regulatory, virile, united, upswing and inclusive democratic blueprint.

(*8*)“Let it be clear that the All Progressives Congress in Zamfara State is strong, vibrant and united under the robust leadership of Distinguished Senator Abdul’aziz Yari, former Governor of Zamfara State and Director General, Tinubu/Shettima Presidential Campaign Council.”

(*8*)He advised Nigerians to secured pretend information about Yari and APC in Zamfara State, pronouncing: “Nigeria wishes visionary, practical, resourceful and brave leaders like President Tinubu, Vice President Shettima, Senator Yari and so forth.

(*8*)“Together we will build a nation future generations will be proud of. It starts with the re-election of President Bola Tinubu in the upcoming presidential election. This is our chance to foster sustainable democracy and development in Nigeria.”