All Progressives Congress (APC) leader Barrister Sani Mohammed Takori bemoaned that internal disputes were to blame for the party’s Zamfara State chapter losing the governorship race.
He insisted that the party was seriously fractured because things had gone wrong and the centre could no longer support it.
Takori attributed the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP,’s victory over the party to a power struggle between previous governors Bello Mohammed Matawalle and Abdulaziz Yari.
He claimed that the party’s National Secretariat made every effort to reconcile the two groups in order to help the party win all of the State’s elective seats.
He remarked that despite the titanic struggle continuing, “both party heavyweights were forced to take oaths of unity but they took the oaths under pretence.”
Takori continued by saying that he had requested the dissolution of the party’s State leadership on numerous times from the National Secretariat of the party.
The former federal representative argued that the lack of expertise among the leadership was also a factor in the party’s disastrous performance in the most recent governorship race as well as the election for the State House of Assembly.
“Tukur Umar Danfulani, the party’s head in the State, is not a politician; he happened to be there by accident.
“The party was even lucky to have won eight seats in the House out of 24 State House of Assembly elections, which was very embarrassing and perplexing to the ruling party as at then,” he said.
Takori asserts that the party’s leadership did not implement any imposing strategies in the State and that they intervened in the party’s future out of self-interest.
The cracks were neglected prior to the general elections, lamented the former federal representative for the Bukkuyum/Gumi Constituency in the House of Representatives.
