The Zamfara State Chairman of the All Progressives Party (APC), Hon. Tukur Umar Danfulani, has tackled Senator Kabiru Garba Marafa over his threat that he will give a wider minus of one million votes against President Bola Ahmed Tinubu come 2027 presidential election across the northwest zone.
In a statement issued and signed by the Zamfara State APC Chairman, who described the threat as empty made by the toothless bulldog, adding that, the defected Senator Marafa is weakened by the fall of his political popularity in the state and the northwest zone in general.
“As a political party, the APC in Zamfara has come across an interview granted by former Senator Kabiru Garba Marafa threatening to reduce one million votes tally from President Bola Ahmed Tinubu votes which he claimed to have secured to win the 2023 presidential election in the northwest for President Bola Ahmed Tinubu and that he will stop the President from getting such votes in 2027.
“First, I would like to address that by telling the Nigerian public that apart from being disgraced from the Senate by his constituents in 2019 that he has not recovered from his dementia. Even in the 2023 polls where he made uncorroborated calls on the 2023 elections, it should be noted that Marafa could not even win his constituency in the same elections talkless of securing the votes which largely came through the faith the electorate have in the party and in Matawalle, Yari and other respected party leaders in the state.
“Matawalle, the present Minister of State for Defence now, served as the Tinubu/Shatima Presidential Campaigns Council for the whole of northwest and initially to double as the Zamfara State coordinator but seeing that the work would be overwhelming, suggested the Zamfara coordination on Marafa which was reluctantly approved because he (Marafa) did not merit it.
“Having lost everywhere, Marafa who insisted he be given a high ranking position in the government, began to torment one problem or the other, sometimes using alliances with other trouble makers who would also leave him immediately they discovered his selfish motives.
“APC supporters in Zamfara have grown wiser and more loyal to political leaders like Matawalle, Senator Yari and many others who carry them along, which is why the party won the just concluded Kaura Namoda South State House of Assembly bye election with a wide margin against the runner up (PDP) without any input from the likes of Marafa who tried to sabotage APC’s chances of winning through anti-party maneuvers that didn’t work for them.
“It’s laughable that Marafa who couldn’t win even his ward of Yandoton daji or his local government of Tsafe or his central constituency, could boast of reducing one million votes out of President Bola Ahmed’s votes of 2023. The question here is, from where will Marafa get these votes because the entire Zamfara State votes in 2023 were not close to one million votes.
“Marafa should know that nemesis of his deeds in form of betrayal and deceit will continue to haunt him because even in 2011 he was sponsored by the same Yari he is now envying to win his Senatorial seat and the second attempt was met with heavy resistance from party leaders of his constituency but with the intervention of the former Zamfara State Deputy Governor, Mallam Ibrahim Wakkala Muhammad at the presidential Lodge, Gusau, to consider and support Marafa if not he wouldn’t have won even at primary election.
“Let’s put the records straight, what is expected from Senator Marafa during the interview is to tell the world how many votes he secured himself and that of his opponent in the last election before talking about reducing President Bola Ahmed votes while peddling lies and parapaganda that are dead on arrival.
“His unguarded utterances are just out of frustration of loosing election and his inability to secure appointments in President Bola Ahmed Tinubu administration”, Tukur Danfulani has warned.
