The Senator representing Zamfara central in the National Assembly Kabiru Marafa has advised the presidential campaign council of Buhari to shelf any plan it has of its campaign trail hitting Zamfara on 3rd of this month as planned.
This he said was as a result of the factionalisation of the party in the state. Speaking to state house correspondents in Abuja the senator said that his position was in the interest of the party “I just submitted a proposal which I think will serve the interest of our party, the president and our people.
We don’t have candidates for now because of the political impasse that characterised Zamfara State in the last few months and the president is billed to be in Zamfara on Sunday, Feb. 3
Because of the rumple between disagreeing parties, we felt it is better Mr President suspends his visit to Zamfara. After all, we are there; we can campaign for him; he knows us; he knows our individual capacities; there is no point bringing all the factions under on umbrella, because once the president is there, if you like the president and you are with him, you will like to show your face”.
He said that if the president insists on coming himself and others would like to be excused from the event.
“maybe the party has fixed Feb. 3 for the visit, then we want to be excused because there is no way President Muhammad Buhari will go to Zamfara and my face is not seen and is not seen and people will not ask questions and I think it is not fair just to absent like that. We are not doing what we are doing to impress anybody; we have already gotten all the necessary trust and belief from Mr President even if he is not there, we will do the right thing. But if the party or the Presidential Campaign Council feels they must be in Zamfara on Sunday, we and our supporters want to be excused and we will conduct our own rally for the president on a different date and we will televise it live on NTA so that everybody can see; so let everybody show his support in Zamfara not to come together and then everybody will be claiming victory that I pulled this crowd; let everybody stand on his own. The most important thing is that we all believe in Mr President and we all like him and we will support him and we want him to win; so let us work individually, and Feb. 16, we will all converge on the box and show what we can do but let the people of Nigeria see us individually.
