From Leo Nzwanke, Lafia
Majority Leader of Nasarawa State House Assembly, Honourable Umaru Tanko Tunga, and Commissioner for Local Governent and Chieftaincy Affairs Aliyu Turaki, narrowly escaped death during the primary election exercise of All Progressive Congress APC in Awe Local Governent Area to produce chairmanship candidate in the forthcoming October 6 council election in the State.
This following a clashed between supporters of the leading chairmanship Aspirants Umaru Tanko Dan Akano and Usman Umaru, who accused each other of plotting to rigged the election.
An aide to the immediate past chairman of the local government, Yusuf Dogara, alleged that the Assembly Majority Leader and the commissioner had hijacked the process of the exercise in their attempt to rig and impose their preferred candidate against the wishes of majority of the electorates.
” According to Dogara, Umaru Tanko Tunga and Commissioner for local government and Chieftaincy Affairs Yusuf Aliyu Turaki used their position to move the primary election from Awe to Lafia, and according to election time table the primary was supposed to end yesterday 27 July 2021 anything beyond yesterday is not election”, he said
Dogara, while speaking in a telephone interview with our correspondent further alleged that the two politicians succeeded in illegally shifting the election to Lafia, the state capital as against the electoral guidelines issued by the state Independent Electoral Commission.
All effort to reach Majority Leader Umaru Tanko Tunga, on the alleged plot proved abortive as he neither pick phone calls non responds to text massages as at the time of filing the report.
