Zamfara: APC Intra-Party Crisis and Supreme Court Review, By Musa Gusau

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Zamfara: APC Intra-Party Crisis and Supreme Court Review, By Musa Gusau

POLITICS DIGEST – The Zamfara APC internal feud, which is now at the Supreme Court for review, is taking another dimension with the interest shown by the opposition PDP.

The initial case was between the Zamfara state chapter of the APC and some of its key members under the leadership of Senator Kabiru Marafa.

However, it appears the case is taking  a new twist, as external forces are meddling into the possible review being awaited at the Supreme Court.

Recently, Senator Ahmed Sani, a two-term governor of the state and a down-to-earth suppoter of President Muhammadu Buhari, began a political harakiri with the opposition PDP despite being a founding father of the APC and a great beneficiary too.

In fact, he publicly declared that Gov Bello Mohammed Matawalle of Zamfara state would be good in APC than the PDP. By such declaration, it is expected that the Yariman Bakura is a die-hard APC member, but he is not.

Having realised that he has lost control of the party to the immediate past governor of the state, His Excellency, Hon. Abdulaziz Yari, Sen. Ahmed Sani now wants to play the spoiler role by causing another intra-party crisis to enable him regain grip of the APC structure in the state.

To this end, he publicly told members and supporters of the APC in Zamfara to stop being deceived by Yari and face reality because the Supreme Court would not entertain the case again.

The Supreme Court has of recent come under serious scrutiny and we, members of the APC family in Zamfara, are confident that justice would prevail in the end.

The case is a family matter and there is no reason why Yarima should drag Gov. Bello Mohammed Matawalle into it.

The Supreme Court addressed the Zamfara case as “SC 377/2019. APC Vs Sen. Kabiru Garba Marafa & 179 ORS” and not APC Vs PDP. It is a purely internal family matter.

The application issued by Zamfara APC to the Supreme Court, seeking for the review of its judgement delivered on 24th May, 2019, is completely not seeking for the change of the Supreme Court judgement as potrayed by many who are ignorant of the content of the application, but rather, the application is bounded only on seeking for the adjustment on some of the consequential orders passed by the previously delivered judgement.

Therefore, Zamfara matter is again contrary and completely different from that of Imo and Bayelsa states cases as Sen. Ahmed Sani wanted the public to believe. The application for the review of judgement applied for the whole change of judgement by the Supreme Court and for the honourable judges of the court to set aside their final judgement completely and then reverse it to their favour.

This in totality differs from Zamfara case that applied for only adjustment of some consequential orders in the final judgement.

However, In the cases of Imo and Bayelsa, the legal tussle contradicts that of Zamfara,  as the Imo case is bearing an election matter, while Bayelsa case is confined to the allegation of forgery of certificate. The Zamfara matter is directly brearing on a pre-election matter and again an internal matter within the same party, the APC, and not between the APC and PDP.

To clearly understand more on the reality and facts about the differences in the  cases of Zamfara and that of Imo and Bayelsa states, one needs to go beyond the already planned political brouhaha by the agents of darkness (Zamfara PDP and  the Chief Agent of PDP in Zamfara APC) who is  always trying to cover-up by mis-informing the general public about Zamfara Supreme Court review and to create unnecessary similarities between Zamfara matter with that of Imo and Bayelsa.

The elements and grounds for Zamfara APC demands and majority of Nigerians for the review and adjustment of some consequential orders on Zamfara election are completely different from those of Bayelsa and Imo states. The APC’s demand on Zamfara was not in any way in contestation of the authority and finality of the Supreme Court. The demand was rather a patriotic effort to assist the Supreme Court affirm its infallibility by correcting the inherent mistakes in the judgment, which came as a result of misleading presentation to it by aggrieved members of the Zamfara All Progressives Congress (APC).

It is, therefore, normal that Zamfara election matter before the Supreme Court for review was brought on clearly distinctive grounds and each consequential order seeking to be adjusted by Zamfara APC’s application should be treated on its merit before the law because, the grounds for the review of Zamfara judgment were unambiguously, constitutional and completely distinct from demands on the Bayelsa and Imo elections.

Elections everywhere in the world are known to be parameters for judging party and candidates acceptance by the people but the PDP in Zamfara fielded candidates in the 2019 general elections that were roundly rejected by the people of the state across board.

Going by the votes candidates of the PDP scored at the elections it can be said without fear of contradiction that the party and its candidates do not come near what the people of Zamfara wanted in terms of governance and representation.

The results of the Zamfara governorship elections showed, for instance, that while the APC candidate, Muktar Idris, polled 531,541 out of 810,782 across 14 local governments in the state, Bello Matawalle of the PDP polled only 189, 452 votes to come second while Saidu Dansadau of the National Rescue Movement polled 15, 177 votes to come third.

A thorough analysis of the votes polled by each party and its candidate reveals that the PDP candidate polled only a paltry of the total number of votes cast because 189, 782 votes is substantially insignificant a number in an election involving 810, 782 voters.

What this implies is that while over 60 per cent of the voters in Zamfara wanted the APC candidate less than 25 per cent of the voters in Zamfara had rejected the PDP and its candidate.

The Supreme Court needs to consider all these to take the issue of reviewing the judgment on Zamfara election seriously as the greatest victims of that ruling are the good people of Zamfara who by ideology and identification with party manifesto and programme recognise only the APC. Since the return to democracy in 1999, the people of the state have roundly been saying no to the PDP for the several times it fielded candidates during elections.

In view of the above, it is a good case for a review by the Supreme Court itself when the errors are brought to its knowledge. The court has jurisdiction to do so in the interest of real justice to all stakeholders in a true democracy.

Finally, with this careful analysis, any right thinking individual will agree that the case of Zamfara APC is entirely and completely different from that of Imo and Bayelsa which have already been resolved by the apex court.

Gusau is the Secretary of Concerned Citizens of Zamfara

 
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