The title holder of Matawallen-Maradun made the promise at a news conference in Gusau on Saturday.
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Wakkala, who is an All Progressives Congress governorship aspirant, made the call while addressing his supporters in Gusau on Saturday.
The decision was announced by Yekini Nabena, the acting National Publicity Secretary of the party.
Governors of the All Progressives Congress on the aegis of the Progressives Governors Forum, on Thursday said the party would come out stronger from the challenges that followed its primaries in some states of the federation.
When he made the last Independence Day speech of his first term, President Muhammadu Buhari might have been speaking only to his prep team and the recording crew. Not that Nigerians were not happy to mark another national holiday.
Matawalle made the call while speaking with newsmen in Gusau on Wednesday, saying that the political tension in the state is worrisome.
Some All Progressives Congress stakeholders in Zamfara are meeting to avert crisis after Governor Abdulaziz Yuri kicked against arrangements made to conduct direct primary to select the party’s governorship candidate.
The Zamfara Chapter of the All Progressive Congress has shifted its governorship primaries to October 1, due to non-arrival of the election committee from the National Headquarters in Abuja.
Yari made the assertion on Friday while addressing the All Progressives Congress supporters at Abubakar Tunau Model Primary School polling unit in Talata-Mafara town, Talata-Mafara Local Government Area of the state.
Governor Abdul’aziz Yari of Zamfara State has warned governorship aspirants on the platform of the All Progressives Congress in the state against using insecurity to campaign against his government.
Garba made the plea in an interview with newsmen in Sokoto, saying bandits fleeing Zamfara were now terrorising residents in some local government areas in Sokoto State sharing borders with Zamfara.
In Nigeria today, when you hear some states, certain things come to mind, automatically: when you hear Borno, you think Boko Haram; you hear Benue, you mind races to herdsmen; and of course, when you think Zamfara, you think of bandits, killing thousands across the state.
The Secretary of the State Committee on Presidential primary election in the state, Prof. Abdullahi Shinkafi, disclosed this to newsmen in Gusau on Sunday.
The police in Zamfara said armed bandits have abducted seven people from Nahuche village of Bungudu Local Government.
Yari, in a statement issued on Sunday in Gusau by Malam Ibrahim Dosara, his Special Adviser on Media and Public Enlightenment, cautioned his loyalists to desist from revenge.
The call was made during a joint rally organised by the supporters of the aspirants in Gusau on Sunday.
Governor Abdulaziz Yari of Zamfara State on Friday inaugurated a 46-member Elders’ Committee to reconcile aggrieved members of All Progressives Congress in the state.
Marafa, who spoke with State House correspondents on Friday, said he was in the Presidential Villa to offer useful clues to President Muhammadu Buhari on way out the lingering security problem in the State.
On September 12, gunmen unleashed another deadly attack on Badarawa community, killing 11 people and wounding 24 others.
The police in Zamfara have confirmed that bandits attacked and killed six persons in the early hours of Wednesday in Badarawa village of Shinkafi Local Government area of Zamfara.