Niger APC chairman suspended over alleged anti party activities

just concluded 2023 Presidential and National Assembly election conducted on the 25th February, 2023.

“It is on record that Hon. Haliru Zakari Jikantoro has been indulging in Anti-Party activities by canvassing votes for the People Democratic Party for the Presidential and National Assembly Elections. Little wonder that when the general election was approaching, Hon. Haliru never consulted nor called any stakeholders meeting, of the Ward Executive or the Local Government Executive to know the level of preparedness for the forthcoming elections. On the contrary, Hon. Haliru used the funds to finance campaigns of the PDP and mobilize votes for the PDP at Agwara Local Government.

“Moreover, during the 25th February, 2023 General Elections at Agwara Local Government Area Niger State, he voted and Hon. Haliru’s polling at Central Primary School Kashini Ward canvassed votes for the People Democratic Party on the ballot papers which accounted for the reason why the APC did not win the said Polling Unit.

“On the whole, these anti-party activities by Hon. Haliru Zakari Jikantoro’s contravene Article 21 paragraph A item I-XI of the All Progressive Congress Constitution 2014 (As Amended) particularly items II and II. It is against this backdrop that Honourable Haliru Zakari Jikantoro is hereby suspended from the Kashini Ward of Agwara Local Government of the All Progressive Congress (APC) with immediate effect.”

2023 polls: APC hurriedly subverted will of Nigerians – Kogi LP chieftain, Averehi

By Christiana Ekpa

Achieftain of the Labour Party in Kogi State, Bayo Averehi has slammed the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) for allegedly using the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) to subvert the will of Nigerians in the just concluded Presidential and National Assembly elections.

Averehi, who made his position known, while addressing journalists in Lokoja on Sunday, rejected the outcome of the election which produced Senator Ahmed Bola Tinubu as President Muhammamdu Buhari’s successor.

Describing the election results as declared by the INEC as a great injustice and a rape of Nigeria’s democracy, the former Peoples Democratic Party, (PDP) Governorship aspirant in Kogi State said the 2023 election recorded the highest number of voters’ turnout in the history of Nigeria.

He, however, lamented that the outcome of the 2023 polls has been widely condemned by both local and international observers, thereby, making Nigeria a laughing stock among comity of nations.

Averehi said: “this is because the youth and others came out en-mass, having developed confidence in the electoral process due to the provisions of the electoral act, which gave assurance that their votes will count.

“They hurriedly declared results without considering the reported election anomalies and the provisions of the constitution which states: ‘and the FCT’. ln the end, we shall prevail, the truth will overcome”.