Zamfara APC Crisis: Yari’s Faction Berates Yerima for Fuelling Feud

Adedayo Akinwale in Abuja

A faction of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Zamfara State loyal to former governor, Abdulaziz Yari, has berated Senator Sani Yarima for fuelling feud among party members in the state.

Yarima had during a meeting at the weekend said the suit challenging the dissolution of the executives would soon

be thrown out by the court.

In a video clip of the meeting that had gone viral, the former governor stated that the court would not recognise any faction of APC in the state, since the “leadership of the party is with the Governor, court cannot do anything.”

Recall that the Caretaker/Extraordinary Convention Planning Committee (CECPC) of the party led by the Governor of Yobe State, Mai Mala Buni, had announced the dissolution of the State Working Committee ( SWC) of the APC in Zamfara

State following the defection of the state governor, Bello Matawalle, to the party in June this year.

Dissatisfied with the dissolution of the executives, Yari’s camp instituted a suit challenging the action of the caretaker committee.

It was based on this premise that the Yari faction shunned the recently conducted congresses of the party in the state.

Yari’s camp, while reacting to Yerima in a statement issued Tuesday through its Chairman, Alhaji Lawal Liman said it was unfortunate that Yarima was only interested in politics and issues that further compound the problems of the people of the state.

He stated: “Yarima has never commented on the security situation of the state even when his local government (Bakura) was in the eye of the storm. He never found it necessary to raise an ordinary motion on the floor of the Senate where he represented the people for 12 years.

“Just last week the road leading to Shinkafi from Kaura Namoda was blocked several times, many people killed and property destroyed, the same thing happened in Maru, Bungudu and Tsafe LGAs, Yarima was never heard, either condoling or commiserating with the people.

“Rather than playing the role of father to all, Yarima’s interest is always on fuelling the feud among party members in the state. In the viral video, he was heard advising the governor to demolish the property of opposition politicians. He

seems to be blaming everyone for his failed presidential ambition.”

Liman said he didn’t know when Yarima became a judge, but insisted that the courts cannot be bought, influenced or intimidated.

He pointed out that a worthy example of the Supreme Court judgment that brought Yarima’s new master to power and the recent judgment recognizing Shekarau’s faction in Kano were enough for “all failed politicians like Yarima” to know that Nigeria’s Judiciary has come of age and would always do the right thing regardless

of which side the federal government is supporting in a particular case.

Liman therefore expressed confidence that the court would restore law and order in the party by restoring the members of the dissolved SWC, notwithstanding Yarima’s efforts to brew crisis by denting the image of the judiciary.

He stated categorically that the dissolution of the SWC by Buni was illegal and no amount of blackmail or intimidation by the

Yarimas of this world would stop the courts from righting the wrong.