From: Ahmed Abubakar, Dutse

No fewer than 2, 000 All Progressives Congress (APC) supporters from Kiyawa Local Government Area of Jigawa State had, on Tuesday, stormed the state government house Dutse protesting against alleged enforcement of an unpopular candidate ahead of the local government election scheduled to take place on 1st July, 2017.

Speaking to journalists on behalf of the protesters, Alhaji Abdussalam Umar Kiyawa, blamed some APC caucus members in Kiyawa Local Government Area for not obeying the governor and state party leadership’s directives to conduct a genuine consensus among the party loyalists and choose the most eligible candidate that would be accepted to the masses who will lead the party to victory in the election.

The protesters also accused their House of Representatives member for enforcing the local government party chairman Isyaku Adamu on them as his personal candidate against the wish of many.

“We have heard the voice of our rep member Ibrahim Kemba Madobi in the  media saying that, they have reached consensus over local government chairmanship candidate in Kiyawa local government and Isyaku Adamu is their choice” he said.

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“So we are here at the government house to submit our protest letter to His Excellency Governor Muhammad Abubakar Badaru against this decision of enforcing a candidate on majority by a few, as everybody know that, APC is a party of masses where real democracy is at work not like in other political parties” he stated.

According to them, the party members and majority of the masses in Kiyawa local council have their own choice who suffered for the party since its creation and played a vital role for the success of 2015 general election who still remained the voice of the masses in the local government.

The protesters then called on the Governor and the state leadership of APC to intervene by given ample chances to the party members at local government level to come up with a competent candidate for a better democracy and success of the party in the election.

It could be recalled last week that the leadership of APC invited the 27 local government Caucus of the party for a consensus meeting  on local government candidates but ended in a stalemate.