By Muhammad Goronyo, Sokoto
“Our position is due to the glaring fact that they are all card carrying members of the PDP.
All of them are very close cohorts of the leadership of the government in Sokoto state who are always dancing to its tunes”, declared the state APC Chairman, Isah Sadiq Achida while addressing newsmen at the party Secretariat along Sultan Abubakar Road, Sokoto.
He said the recent happenings in the preparations for forthcoming LG elections in the state have glaringly confirmed our their position.
That when the state government announced the belated decision to conduct the local government elections in the state, they expected the electoral body to arrange consultative meetings with other political parties for the successful conduct of the elections but outrightly refused to do so.
Achida said they expected a just umpire like SIEC should have invited political parties for their inputs before coming up with an election timetable adding that it was a further indication of their lack of fairness and unwillingness to provide a level playing ground for political parties wishing to participate in the elections.
“It is sad to note that apart from deliberately starving the local governments of funds that legally belong to them, the present administration in Sokoto state will go down in history as one that was instrumental to reducing the tenure of elected local government councils from three to two years for no other reason than to serve the personal convenience of its leadership”, averred the chairman.
He said the APC in Sokoto therefore call on all its members and supporters across the state not to participate or have anything to do with the conduct of the elections in the interest of the party and the principles of democracy which the APC represents.
