A former governor of Zamfara state, Alhaji Abdulazeez Yari on Tuesday warned the All Progressives Congress (APC) against any form of imposition for the office of national chairman of the party.
He said the caution became necessary following experience of the past where former governor of Edo state, Comrade Adams Oshiomhole was imposed as National Chairman of the party.
Yari, one of the contenders for the National Chairmanship position of the APC made this known at a meeting with the Senate caucus of the party in Abuja.
He said “imposition as it was done with emergence of Comrade Adams Oshiomhole as National Chairman of the party in 2018, should be avoided at the National Convention slated for Saturday”.
Continuing he said “the President made mistake in the past by anointing Adams Oshiomhole single handedly, nobody voted for him, he was anointed as the national chairman and you can see the result today, do you want the party to experience such again” he asked?.
He added that he has the energy, experience, capacity and required candour for the position just, even as he dismissed report in the media on micro zoning of the party ‘s positions.
According to him, the position of National Chairman is zoned to the entire North and not and any specific zone.
“I am not aware that the party zoned the position of National Chairman to North central, but very much aware that all positions of the party domiciled in the North before should move to South and vice versa.
“I don’t know any issue about zoning because it was not communicated to me, I only saw it on social media.
“I have already purchased my form and I am forging ahead with my aspiration” , he said.
On insinuation that President Muhammadu Buhari has already anointed Senator Abdullahi Adamu, he said it was planted story in the Newspapers.
“You have also been reading in the newspapers that President Muhammadu Buhari did not anoint anybody, the special adviser on media, Garba Shehu has since clarified that”.
“We are trying to break those jinx, we must come through the ballot box so that we can respect the votes of the people not by picking” Yari added.
