Kaduna State PDP Says El-Rufai Cannot win Governorship Election
The Kaduna state Chapter of the Peoples Democratic Party has stated that the party is not shaken by the choice of Nasir El-Rufai as the governorship candidate of the All Progressive Congress as he is no threat to the State Governor, Ramalan Yero, who is the ruling party’s governorship candidate for the 2015 elections.
The state PDP chairman, Abubakar Haruna, while addressing journalists at the Nigeria Union of Journalist secretariat, Kaduna State Council, said El-Rufai cannot deter PDP’s chances at the election.
“APC is a contraband product which does not exist in Kaduna State,” Mr. Haruna said. “The APC does not have a manifesto of its own, but a duplicate of the PDP’s document.
“There was nothing like imposition of candidates. Everybody bought form to aspire for positions of their choice. None of the applicants ever approached the state secretariat to lodge complaints regarding the process that saw Yero and other aspirants emerging victorious at the end of the day.
“The game of politics is the game of who is strong enough. It is now left for the delegates, you could have money, and be good you could not even have money and you can be good what has happened first is the determination of the leadership of the party not to involve themselves in money siphoning from aspirants, you allow delegates to go and do their duty.
“I want to appeal to you, the media to, please, make Nigeria grow by a way of presenting it in positive terms to the outside world, but if it refuses to grow, then Nigeria journalists have done that.”
