The
governorship candidate of the All Progressives Grand Alliance in
Zamfara State, Alhaji Sani Shinkafi, on Wednesday confirmed that he has
ejected all displaced persons taking shelter in his houses in Shinkafi
for voting for the All Progressives Congress in Saturday’s Presidential
and National Assembly elections.Shinkafi confirmed in Gusau at a
news conference organized by a coalition of some political parties in
the state protesting against the elections.“I have asked all the IDPs residing in my Shinkafi houses to immediately pack out because they are not serious in life.
“These
are people who had to leave their villages due to insecurity caused by a
government that could not provide such basic necessity to them, yet
they went and sold their votes at the last elections trying to bring
back the same gang,” he claimed.According to him, in spite
of earlier advice to the displaced persons “to vote out those who failed
them in the past years”, they still did.He claimed that the
Internally Displaced Persons allowed themselves to be bought over during
the election by “the people who failed them.”Shinkafi said
the coalition would not support the Resident Electoral Commissioner and
all security chiefs in the state to handle the March 9, governorship and
state assembly elections.“This is because we have no confidence
in them and their ability to be fair and just to us,” the APGA
governorship candidate added.The News Agency of Nigeria reports that the coalition is comprised of the PDP, APGA, ACCORD, NRM, APP, ADC, NPP, DPP and YPP.
(NAN)