Kaduna council poll a charade – Chairmanship candidate alleges

A chieftain and chairmanship candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in the just-concluded local government election in Kagarko LGA of Kaduna State, Ahmadu Yunusa Yusuf, has described the exercise as a charade.

Addressing newsmen, Yusuf explained that election did not hold in any part of Kagarko LGA as announced by the Kaduna State Independent Electoral Commission (KAD-SIECOM).

He said, “it is laughable despite election did not hold, the state electoral body went ahead to announce the ruling All Progressive Congress (APC) as winner of the election across the 23 local government across the state.”

According to him, the local government elections has never been won by one political party in the state since the inception of democracy, explaining that such action clearly showed that both the state government and KAD-SIECOM lacks integrity.

He added that it is very laughable, condemnable and absolutely unacceptable for the state governor Uba Sani and KAD-SIECOM to come out openly and tell Nigerians that APC won all the 23 LG elections.

He stressed that everybody knows that local government election in Kaduna state has never been won by one political party, pointing out that it is on this premise that, we are calling on the federal executive council and the national assembly not to grant the state government further local government allocation because election did not hold.

The PDP chairmanship candidate further explained that he has both audio and video evidences that showed that local government election did not hold in any part of Kagarko local government.

Yusuf said that he has video evidences where some hired people were thumb printing ballot papers at their comfort zone, stressing that he has video evidence where the state governor himself was being booed at his own polling unit, until the fourth time before he could cast his vote.

The chairmanship candidate called on President Bola Ahmed Tinubu and the national assembly to wade into the matter in the interest of the country’s democracy, saying that he will not challenge the election at the election tribunal since there no election in Kagarko LGA.