By Onuminya Innocent in Sokoto
Facts have emerged why the Speaker of Sokoto State House of Assembly, Hon. Muhammad Aminu Achida, boycotted the Saturday All Progressive Congress (APC) Ward Congress.
The Sokoto State Chapter of the APC on Saturday held it ward congresses across the 23 local governments of the state.
Achida and the member representing Illela /Gwadabawa federal constituency, Mr. Balarabe Salame, who are staunch members of the party boycotted the exercise.
THISDAY gathered that Achida and Salame belong to a faction of the party in the state they claimed that Senator Aliyu Wamakko, the leader of the party, imposed candidates on the party.
The speaker and Salame have not hidden their thought. They have expressed it severally in many forum that the imposition of candidate made the party to lose the 2019 governorship election to the People Democratic party.
Achida, who represented Wurno State Constituency, emerged speaker with the backing of Governor Aminu waziri Tambuwal.
Salame, the former acting governor, is nursing an ambition of contesting governorship election come 2023.
An ally of the speaker who spoke on condition anonymity explained that the speaker was not comfortable with the consensus arrangement by the party in the state.
He further disclosed that as a major stakeholder the speaker was sidelined stressing that he was not called or invited during the stakeholders meeting prior to the congress.
He allayed fear that some aggrieved members in the party including speaker might challenge the legality of the congress in law court.
He maintained that if the national headquarters did not intervene in the matter the crisis might consumed the party before 2023.
“You can imagine a stakeholder like speaker of the State House Assembly was not consulted before the decision on consensus was adopted he stated.
He noted that the PDP in the state is stronger now than 2019 warning the APC to be careful in resolving it crisis.
