It is no longer news that 2023 presidential and parliamentary elections has come and gone with both winners and losers emerging across the country.
The antics of some defeated, disgruntled politicians of the ruling party towards overturning the victory of the candidate of the People Democratic Party (PDP) in person of Rt. Hon. David Umar Gurara who was massively voted by the good people of the federal constituency as a result of his goodwill, robust campaign, competence and general acceptance across the two local governments that make up the federal constituency is not hidden and must be resisted by all lovers of democracy and rule of law.
The determination of the constituents to change the current member, Honourable Gabriel Saleh Zock who has done nothing but displayed crast incompetence in the last four years of representing Kachia/Kagarko at the Green chambers should be applauded and their wishes via the ballot be allowed to prevail.
It is now public knowledge that disgruntled politicians led by the current member who was roundly defeated in both the two LGs quickly mobilized and solicited for cancellation of the result and a rerun claiming that elections was not held in Bishini ward of Kachia Local Government due to destruction of election materials and violence that led to loss of a human life that necessitated the cancellation of the elections there in line with the Electoral Law.
It is on record that this was the same ward that they used to carry out their antidemocratic act to out scheme our new member elect in 2019. They cancelled over 42,000 votes of the PDP to ensure that the now defeated member gets to the house at all costs and his representation turn out to be a monumental disaster to the good people of Kachia Kagarko compared to the likes of Late Hon. Emmanuel Maisango of blessed memory and Hon. Jagaba Adams Jagaba who represented us very well during their tenures.
We therefore view this antics of the defeated member as not just an affront to the electorates who have voted the representative of their choice but also a display of unsportsmanship.
The sitting member mobilized a Federal Commissioner of a Federal Parastatal, the member of the House of Assembly representing Kagarko who has just been recalled back to the house after year of suspension due to his undemocratic characters, and a former sole administrator of Kachia Local Government who left so much financial mess in his few months tenure. They have gone to the extent of going to INEC headquarters pleading for cancellation of the results even dragging the name of the current Vice President Prof. Yemi Osibanjo in their quest to upturn the will of the people.
We strongly believe that the Vice President as a leader and a custodian of the law will not get involved in such anti democratic venture.
I appeal to the good people of the Federal Constituency to remain calm and unshakeable since we have freely given the member-elect our mandate, we will not sit back and allow anybody to come from the backdoor and steal our mandate again. The election has been concluded and the peoples’ candidate Rt. Hon. David Umar Gurara has been declared winner and no undemocratic force can change that.
We will stand and defend our mandate.
~ Shedrack Michael
