The Chairman of the Senate Committee on Petroleum (Downstream), Senator Kabiru Garba Marafa (APC, Zamfara), has appealed to his teeming supporters to accept Friday’s decision by the Independent National Electoral Commission to accept candidates on the platform of the All Progressives Congress in Zamfara State for the general elections beginning on Saturday.
Marafa spoke via a press statement on the INEC decision that favoured the Zamfara State Governor, Abdulaziz Yari, with whom he had been engaged in a face-off for months.
Marafa, who also sought the governorship ticket of the APC but has now lost to Yari’s anointed candidate based on the INEC decision occasioned by the pronouncement of the Court of Appeal, said: “This is what Allah has decided and destined, we have accepted it.
“We tried our best but Allah knows the wisdom behind this. I have said it, that whatever comes out from the court, we will open our hands and accept it as Allah’s will. What we are fighting is injustice and nothing personal.”
Marafa urged his supporters to remain law abiding and come out enmasse to vote for President Muhammadu Buhari in Saturday’s election.
He said: “I’m appealing to my teeming supporters to be law abiding and shun anything that would cause confusion and breach of public peace.
“Please come out massively to vote for President Buhari. And for other elections vote for the candidates that will protect you and your properties in Senatorial and House of Representatives Elections. Vote according to your conscience.
“We have already filed an appeal at the Sokoto Division of the Appeal Court. It will come up soon. We will pursue it to its logical conclusion.
“I sincerely thank all the good people within and outside the state that supported us in standing up to the tyrannical tendencies of Governor Yari and his backers.”