Marafa tackles Oshiomhole over claim that Zamfara APC held primaries

Kabir Marafa, senator representing Zamfara central, says Adams Oshiomhole, national chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC), should not allow himself be pressured into becoming a liar.

Marafa, a governorship aspirant on the platform of APC, said this in reaction to a comment made by Oshiomhole.

The APC chairman while appearing on ‘Hard Copy’, a Channels Television programme, had said that his party conducted a primary election in Zamfara.

But in a statement issued on Saturday, Marafa said “it’s quite unfortunate and disheartening to watch the hitherto respected comrade rubbishing his hard earned name before the whole world.”

The senator wondered why a “towering” figure like Oshiomhole would want to diminish himself to a position of a liar at this stage of his life.

“What Oshiomhole said was nothing but a wicked lie that can neither stand moral nor legal scrutiny,” Marafa said.

“Records and documentary evidences are abound everywhere that APC did not conduct primaries in Zamfara state, due to the stubborn attitude of the state governor who threatened publicly to send Oshiomhole to the graveyard if he dares him.

“Oshiomhole at the peak of the controversy affirmed the fact that, no primaries was conducted in the media, his famous video of “primaries are to be conducted not by state governments nor by state party chairmen but by the panels sent by the party’s NWC,” is still very much available on the net.

“Equally available is INEC’s letter to him (Chief Oshiomhole) that they receive reports from their local office in Gusau that APC didn’t conduct valid primaries as at 12:am Sunday 7th October 2019.

“It was based on this fact that INEC said it wasn’t  expecting candidates from APC and you Chief Oshiomhole responded by accepting the fact that APC didn’t conduct primaries but you did consensus! A simple  google search will amplify these facts.

“Fact is APC leadership at our state level has failed and nothing can change that fact!”

The senator said it may interest Oshiomhole to know that 75 percent of the people of Zamfara are not sleeping in their houses at nights.

“There is an estimated over 200,000 orphans, 60,000 widows, about 5,000 raped victims, about 5000 abducted persons and unknown number of refugees in Zamfara state! Haba!,” Marafa said.