Bashir Sherrif Machina has objected to his name being yanked off the list given to the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) by the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC).
Africa Today News, New York reports that Senate President Ahmad Lawan was nominated as a candidate for the Yobe North Senatorial District in the 2023 elections on the list presented by the ruling party to INEC.
However, speaking at a news conference on Friday, Machina, who was declared the victor of the Yobe North primaries, said he remains the APC’s senatorial candidate in the area.
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Machina said, ‘I remain the candidate of the APC Yobe North senatorial zone as duly elected. I did not withdraw for anybody and I will not withdraw because as a matter of fact it is a mandate given to me by members of our great party, the delegates. So surreptitiously removing my name, I consider (it) as very undemocratic, illegal and of course inhuman.
‘I will take measures by first appealing to my party that if this action was truly done, it should be corrected, possibly if it was erroneously done. And it was deliberately done, we are actually seeking redress from the National Working Committee of our party under the leadership of Senator Abdullahi Adamu. I remain the candidate.”