Immediate past Governor of Zamfara State, Alhaji Abdulaziz Yari, has disclosed why the crisis in the All Progressives Congress has not been resolved in
At a press briefing in Abuja on Thursday, Alhaji Yari said, Governor Bello Matawalle, who defected to the party from the Peoples Democratic Party a few weeks ago, was demanding a 70% takeover of the party structure at all levels.
“You know in this kind of situation, there must be negotiations and renegotiations because that is how it is like Zamfara politics since 1999. It is not like that of Governors Dave Umahi and Ben Ayade of Ebonyi and Cross Rivers States respectively. Our case is entirely different, which we are still doing some further negotiation on how best we are going to strike a balance that will be of help to the party and some extent, to the Governor.
“You may recall also that, last weekend, the Governor paid a visit to Senator Marafa’s house and in the night I joined them too and we discussed further. He came to discuss how best we can have an excellent deal to strike, whereas, at the initial time, we gave the Committee our proposal with the intent to have a harmonized meeting with his side and our side before he decamped.
“But when he visited Senator Marafa, he told me he wants to take 70% and I said you want to take 70% of the party? I don’t know who you are going to give it to because we know ourselves and who is going to do the work at the grassroots and if these people that are winning the elections a long time ago, if you offend them, they will eventually leave the party and abandon us and the party will go nowhere.
He said, “the Memala Committee when they went to Gusau, he made a pronouncement that he, the Chairman and Caretaker Committee, dissolved the Ward, Local Government and State Executives of the party, which Marafa and I called him to order that he would be going against the constitution as it does not empower him to do that.
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