In order to prevent a repeat of the state’s unconclusive election in 2019, the All Progressives Congress (APC) Kano State chapter says it is mobilizing over one million youth across the 44 local governments, especially in the metropolitan areas.
The Gawuna/Garo Campaign Council’s spokesperson and commissioner for information, Malam Muhammad Garba, revealed this on Monday in Kano. He added that the APC wants to make sure that the 2023 governorship race is decided in the first round of voting.
He claimed that in 2019, the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), the main opposition party, had perfected electoral fraud, which caused the Independent National Electoral Commission to declare the election to be inconclusive (INEC).
“On election day, elements of the opposition mobilized its young in the wee hours, who engaged in widespread vote buying, overvoting, vote stuffing, and even violence, notably in the urban local government regions of the state.
The vote boxes in several voting places were discovered to be full of ballots, some of which had been forcibly taken from INEC employees or received from authorities who supported the opposition.
According to Comrade Garba, “After counting, it was discovered that the majority of the boxes had included more ballots than there were registered voters in the units. Because of this, INEC declared the election to be invalid.
The campaign council spokesperson claimed that the “APC has learned that the New Nigeria People’s Party (NNPP), the current leader in opposition, is planning to operate yet another rigging machine considering its daily membership losses and the apparent utter impossibility to win the 2023 governorship election.
We comprehend that due to their seeming lack of hope and dread of failing, their condition of despondence has gotten so bad that they are now thinking about collaborating with another opposition party to run against the APC in elections.
The APC will “fight and remove all rigging machines to be perfected by the NNPP and checkmate scheme to manipulate or highjack the electoral process,” according to Malam Garba.