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INEC Blocks APC From Fielding Candidates In Zamfara For 2019 Elections by mackay37(m): 8:20am On Oct 10, 2018
The governing All Progressives Congress (APC) has been declared ineligible to field candidates for all elective positions in Zamfara State in the 2019 general elections, PREMIUM TIMES can exclusively report today.

This is because the party failed to meet the October 7 deadline for conducting primaries to elect candidates for the elections.

The Independent National Electoral Commission(INEC), has already notified the party’s national chairman, Adams Oshiomhole, in a letter sighted by PREMIUM TIMES reporters Tuesday evening.

The Zamfara State chapter of the APC had descended into serious crisis as political camps fought bitter and violent battles as they jostled to produce candidates for positions.

The major tussle was between the camps of the state Governor, Abdulaziz Yari, and a senator, Kabiru Marafa.

Mr Yari worked to ensure his preferred aspirant, Mukhtar Idris, the state commissioner of finance, succeeds him.

However, Mr Marafa, one of the leading governorship aspirants, challenged what he described as Mr Yari’s high handedness and attempt to foist Mr Idris on the party.

The APC national headquarters dissolved all party structures in the state while also directing My Yari, himself a senatorial aspirant, to hands off all matters relating to party primaries in the state.
The NWC decision on the removals of the party officials led to a fresh battle between Mr Oshiomhole and his deputy, Lawal Shuaibu.

Both feuding camps eventually organised parallel primaries, producing different sets of candidates.

However, the electoral panel sent to the state by the party’s national leadership announced that it was unable to organise primaries in the state.

INEC has now told Mr Oshiomhole, in a letter titled “Failure To Conduct Party Primaries in Zamfara State Within The Stipulated Time Frame”, that it is not expecting any list of candidates from the party for Zamfara State.

The commission referred Mr Oshiomhole to the timetable and schedule of activities for the 2019 general elections released by the commission on January 9 2018.

“You would note from the timetable that the conduct of party primaries is scheduled to take place between 18th August and 7th October 2018.
“Kindly also refer to the last schedule communicated by your party to the commission on the dates of party primaries nationwide, including Zamfara vide your letter Ref. APC/NHDQ/ INEC/19/18/51 dated 3rd Oct. 2018.

“However, report received from our office in Zamfara State shows that no primaries were conducted by your party in the state, Notwithstanding that our officials were fully mobilized and deployed.”

INEC said based on the provisions of Section 87 and 31 of the Electoral Act 2010 (as amended), “the commission does not expect that your party will submit names of any candidates from Zamfara State.

“For clarity, our position is that the All Progressives Congress (APC), will not be fielding candidates for the governorship, National Assembly and State Assembly Elections in Zamfara state for the 2019 for the general elections.”
The letter was signed by the acting secretary of the commission, Okechukwu Ndeche.

INEC’s decision appears to have given the strongest opposition party in the state, the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), the chance to govern Zamfara for the first time since the country’s return to democratic rule in 1999.

The first governor, Sani Yerima, his successor, Mahmuda Shinkafi and the incumbent, Mr. Yari, were all elected on the platform of the defunct All Nigeria People’s Party (ANPP), one of the legacy parties that merged to form the APC on February 6, 2013.

Mr Shinkafi, who at a point defected to the PDP, returned to the APC last November and is one of the aspirants seeking to pick the party’s governorship ticket.

The PDP has already picked a former member of the House of Representatives, Bello Matawalle, as its governorship candidate for the 2019 elections.






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Re: INEC Blocks APC From Fielding Candidates In Zamfara For 2019 Elections by slivertongue: 8:27am On Oct 10, 2018
A house divided against itself will fall. APC's 'civil war' is about to claim its first victim

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Re: INEC Blocks APC From Fielding Candidates In Zamfara For 2019 Elections by Racoon(m): 8:31am On Oct 10, 2018
“For clarity, our position is that the All Progressives Congress (APC), will not be fielding candidates for the governorship, National Assembly and State Assembly Elections in Zamfara state for the 2019 for the general elections.” The letter was signed by the acting secretary of the commission, Okechukwu Ndeche.
Good! Gov.Abdulaziz Yari will not be coming to the senate having being the architect of this impasse in Zamfara State.

Otherwise INEC would have involved itself in multiple litigations had it choose to go imparttial in this scenario.

INEC have already been compromised but it's good to always play according to the rule of the game.What about Imo State?

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Re: INEC Blocks APC From Fielding Candidates In Zamfara For 2019 Elections by ModsareChevres: 8:37am On Oct 10, 2018
Great... grin

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Re: INEC Blocks APC From Fielding Candidates In Zamfara For 2019 Elections by CilicMarin: 8:37am On Oct 10, 2018
Initial Gra, Gra. APC will just reverse itself and accept one of the initial primaries conducted before..

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Re: INEC Blocks APC From Fielding Candidates In Zamfara For 2019 Elections by Righteousness89(m): 8:50am On Oct 10, 2018
Interesting Times Ahead.......

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Re: INEC Blocks APC From Fielding Candidates In Zamfara For 2019 Elections by escodotman: 8:51am On Oct 10, 2018
Congratulations to the PDP in advance. PDP just added a state governor, Senators and Reps to their fold in 2019 general elections without a fight at all. They don't need to campaign for state elections in Zamfara and now the state issa goal automatically for them.

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Re: INEC Blocks APC From Fielding Candidates In Zamfara For 2019 Elections by ayourbamie: 8:58am On Oct 10, 2018
Its good as long as that paedophile does not return to the senate

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Re: INEC Blocks APC From Fielding Candidates In Zamfara For 2019 Elections by shutto: 9:01am On Oct 10, 2018
Lol......I know APC can't take it
They must manipulate it
Inec + APC=Rigging

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Re: INEC Blocks APC From Fielding Candidates In Zamfara For 2019 Elections by tizzdi(m): 9:01am On Oct 10, 2018
everyone knows apc issa fraud..

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Re: INEC Blocks APC From Fielding Candidates In Zamfara For 2019 Elections by magoo10(m): 9:02am On Oct 10, 2018
Will the corrupt Nigeria system run by APC allow this to stay .only time will tell and expose their hypocrisy

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Re: INEC Blocks APC From Fielding Candidates In Zamfara For 2019 Elections by CROWNWEALTH019(m): 9:04am On Oct 10, 2018
May all our enemies miss their dead line, the God of zamfara people let him be my God

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Re: INEC Blocks APC From Fielding Candidates In Zamfara For 2019 Elections by Nemesis001: 9:04am On Oct 10, 2018
Oshiomole is the undertaker that was sent to bury APC. grin

A party that can't organize theirselves want to rule Nigerians again? grin

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Re: INEC Blocks APC From Fielding Candidates In Zamfara For 2019 Elections by bonechamberlain(m): 9:04am On Oct 10, 2018
thank God, the PDP was proactive. the heat is now on Inec.

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Re: INEC Blocks APC From Fielding Candidates In Zamfara For 2019 Elections by sanpipita(m): 9:04am On Oct 10, 2018
Demise of APC live on HD, by 2019 they will return being a regional party.

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Re: INEC Blocks APC From Fielding Candidates In Zamfara For 2019 Elections by seborrhic: 9:04am On Oct 10, 2018
Oshiomole the APC undertaker

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Re: INEC Blocks APC From Fielding Candidates In Zamfara For 2019 Elections by peacengine(m): 9:04am On Oct 10, 2018
grin A house divided against itself cannot stand, checkmate!

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Re: INEC Blocks APC From Fielding Candidates In Zamfara For 2019 Elections by Afamed: 9:05am On Oct 10, 2018
Misleading thread.
Re: INEC Blocks APC From Fielding Candidates In Zamfara For 2019 Elections by jchioma: 9:05am On Oct 10, 2018
That's it. The laws must be respected and implemented. I honestly hope that INEC gets it right this time, otherwise they will go down as one of the worst under Buhari. APC is going down!

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Re: INEC Blocks APC From Fielding Candidates In Zamfara For 2019 Elections by magoo10(m): 9:05am On Oct 10, 2018
CilicMarin:
Initial Gra, Gra. APC will just reverse itself and accept one of the initial primaries conducted before..
I doubt if you can read and understand.

APC did not successfully conduct any primaries in zamfara and no names were submitted to inec as their candidates.

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Re: INEC Blocks APC From Fielding Candidates In Zamfara For 2019 Elections by hisexcellency34: 9:06am On Oct 10, 2018
Another plus for Atiku

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Re: INEC Blocks APC From Fielding Candidates In Zamfara For 2019 Elections by mbaboy(m): 9:06am On Oct 10, 2018
PDP bouncing back strongly. Atikulate

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Re: INEC Blocks APC From Fielding Candidates In Zamfara For 2019 Elections by Raiders: 9:06am On Oct 10, 2018
escodotman:
Congratulations to the PDP. PDP just added a state governor, Senators and Reps to their fold in 2019 general elections without a fight at all. They don't need to campaign for state elections in Zamfara and now the state issa goal automatically for them.
you forgot that there are 98 political parties in Nigeria and those parties also have candidates in Zamfara state.

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Re: INEC Blocks APC From Fielding Candidates In Zamfara For 2019 Elections by stefanweeks: 9:06am On Oct 10, 2018
This one na own goal by APC

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Re: INEC Blocks APC From Fielding Candidates In Zamfara For 2019 Elections by CilicMarin: 9:08am On Oct 10, 2018
magoo10:
I doubt if you can read and understand.

APC did not successfully conduct any primaries in zamfara and no names were submitted to inec as their candidates.

Submission of names ends on the 18th.

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Re: INEC Blocks APC From Fielding Candidates In Zamfara For 2019 Elections by 2odd(m): 9:08am On Oct 10, 2018
Drabeey:
Hoist the colour
Ploughing through, till 'em succour
Pele o ,kamilu kompo
What's that supposed to be � ?
Anthem abi wetin cos u just muddle it up.
Anyway man must chow ,God will butter ur bread
Re: INEC Blocks APC From Fielding Candidates In Zamfara For 2019 Elections by gaby(m): 9:09am On Oct 10, 2018
Hmmm...

A ruling party that is unable to conduct a hitch-free primary election even within its armbit, what a shame. All they are engrossed in is imposition and counter-impositions that'd ultimately herald their implosion.

PDP, presently sitting in the opposition with no federal money to fight over are clearly more organised and cohesive to an extent. They wouldn't have been any different I'm sure if tables were turned though which is typical with our politicians.

I hope they'd keep at their cohesion and oneness and take advantage of the megalomaniac rumblings within the ranks of the APC to get them annihilated.

In all, the best rigger and the lesser evil should take the day as is usual.

Confused self-centred greedy people disguising as democrats.

That's one down to them. Oshiomole should continue concentrating on how to unseat Saraki and misfiring from all sides of his mouth while the implosion they wished on PDP is taking hold in his very domain.

Enjoy my siggy

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