Eight days after Labaran Maku, the immediate past minister of information, lost the bid to emerge as the candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Nasarawa state, he has alleged that the primary election was fraught with irregularities.
Maku, who lost the ticket of the party to Yusuf Agabi, called for the cancellation of the election.
Seven aspirants partook in the election, which was supervised by Adolphus Wabara, former senate president.
But Maku expressed dissatisfaction with the entire process, disclosing that he had submitted a protest letter to the chairman of the governorship primaries appeal panel.
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“The PDP in Nasarawa state had written to the headquarters on November 28 to protest against the sudden change of delegates’ lists from Keana, Obi, Lafia, Akwanga, and Nasarawa Eggon local governments,” Zakari Edege, the director of publicity, Maku campaign organisation, said in a statement.
“The chairman of the electoral panel, Senator Adolphus Wabara, following the protest, insisted that he had instructions from the national secretariat to use the altered delegates list for the primaries.
“Maku, therefore, wondered why there were separate delegates lists for the conduct of state and national assembly primaries and the governorship primary.”
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The statement also alleged that the conduct of the primary election did not conform with the established guidelines as the number of ballot papers exceeded the number of delegates in the state.
Maku complained that threat and coercion were used to prevent delegates from freely expressing their choice, adding that voting commenced late and went into the night, thereby exposing delegates to danger.
“It is on this premise that I urge you most respectfully to use your good and exalted office to intervene by canceling the gubernatorial primary election held in Nasarawa state,” the statement read.
“I also urge you to conduct another primary election so as to ensure that a free and fair election is conducted in the state.”
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2 comments
TheCable, una no try, see the picture una use, see his mouth. All these Jonathan boys that lost the primaries are all jokers, instead of them to remain as Minister’s, finish their tenure before APC takes over come 2015, they all decided to go and waste the small change they made, sorry for them. Koro is calling for cancellation in Lagos, now it’s Maku’s turn. Who’s next… Jokers
When the so called Transformation Ambassador which the former minister represented can not convinced there immediate area of influence about their fathom transformation and they are rejected it only indicated one thing the transformation only benefit them only hence decision to reject over 90% of Jonathan ministers. I hope they can see the handwriting on the wall. As they were rejected so also is the way Nigerians will reject their principal.
I hope Maku can decamp to Labour Party to achieve his aim to be called candidate.