INEC of sabotage
– INEC had cancelled the House of
Assembly election in Minjibir over security
reasons
– The APC has planned to protest the action
APC accuses INEC of sabotage
The All Progressive Congress ( APC) in Kano
state has accused Independent National
Electoral Commission (INEC) of deliberately
truncating it’s victory by suspending
weekend state House of Assembly rerun at
Minjibir local government area.
In its reaction on Monday, May 2, Alhaji
Abdullahi Abbas, the APC state party
chairman said that the resident electoral
commissioner, Abdullahi Mohammed
Kaugama was overstretching his powers as
guaranteed by constitution.
Abdullahi Mohammed Kaugama had last
Saturday cancelled the rerun by midday
following reported cases of ballot boxes
snatches and other vital election materials
by hoodlums.
Kaugama who was sent to Kano from
Kaduna state to conduct the bye election
told reporters that the commission took the
decision in order to avoid further spread of
violence in the area.
Abbas said: “The decision to put on hold a
peaceful exercise at a point APC was coasting
home for victory was a clear case of sabotage
by a man we suspected was a PDP card
carrying member.
“We as a party had expected consultation with
relevant stakeholders especially the police that
deployed over 1800 officers and men on
ground.”
He said that Minjibir has 156 polling units
mostly located outside the town, adding that
“It was high handedness for a resident
electoral commissioner to single handedly
suspend a process that was largely peaceful
except in just 4 polling units.
“In the worst case scenario, we expected the
electoral umpire to apply appropriate measures
where violence occured by simply suspending
the exercise in the affected polling units
“Security reports suggested that the entire
election was not under threat that could
warrant possible cancellation against the
backdrop that we had 1800 police on ground
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