Indications have emerged at the weekend that all
may not be well in the camp of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Katsina
State following the splitting of the party by people believed to be loyalists
of President Muhammadu Buhari in the state.
The Spokesman of the new group in the party, Alhaji
Baba Dahe Kurfi, told journalists on Sunday that the state Governor Aminu
Masari administration violated the aspiration of people who voted him into
power to provide purposeful leadership, and that the state remains backward in terms
of development.
He said the internal bickering is as a result of
alleged lack of democratic principles “as the governor has pocketed the party
and its leadership without consulting the stakeholders.”
Kurfi said loyalists to President Buhari who had
been together with him in the last 16 years which include Senator M.T Liman,
Dr. Usman Bugaje, Hon. Abdullahi Machika, Hannatu Musawa, Dr. Mansur Funtua,
Hon. Gambo Danmusa, Alhaji Tijjani Zangon Daura and Hon. Sada Ilu were among
those who held a meeting at the weekend in Kaduna where the decision to split
the party was taken.
"The state government collected bailout and
Paris club fund but there was no single project of even N1 billion in the state
apart of painting of schools which the government embarked on without providing
instructional and other material educational development in the state,"
the APC chieftain alleged.
He also alleged that the governor appointed the
publicity secretary of the party as acting state party chairman instead of following
the democratic process.
According to him, "All options are open to us.
We will not fold our arms and allow someone to ruin our integrity by promoting
undemocratic attitude in our party."
It was also learnt that the new group has all the
governorship aspirants on the APC platform in the last 2015 elections.
The group also called on the national leadership of
the party to take urgent steps to check what it described as the “lack of
internal democracy in the party in the state," warning that if the
situation is not quickly control by the national leadership of the party, the
party risked losing in 2019 elections in the state.
Kurfi accused the state governor of appointing of
some opposition party members into his executive council, stating that those
who were openly known to have voted for PDP in the state were now enjoying the
administration. “What kind of administration is Masari operating in our state?
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