Zamfara State APC Chairman Tukur Umar Danfulani has stated that contrary to the insinuation made by Marafa that he has secured victory for President Tinubu in 2023 Presidential election, Matawalle now Minister of state Defense willingly relinquished his powers as state presidential campaign coordinator to Sen. Marafa.
Danfulani in a statement personally signed on Wednesday also stated that Sen. Marafa could not win his on election as Senatorial candidate not to talk of winning victory votes for President Tinubu.
He alleged that Senator Marafa was humiliated by his own constituents since 2019 and that he has not yet recovered from the shock of that defeat.
The statement added that, “Matawalle, the present Minister of State for Defence now, served as the Tinubu/Shatima Presidential Campaigns Council for the whole of northwest and initially to double as the Zamfara State coordinator but seeing that the work would be overwhelming, suggested the Zamfara coordination on Marafa which was reluctantly approved because he (Marafa) did not merit it”.
“Having lost everywhere, Marafa who insisted he be given a high ranking position in the government, began to torment one problem or the other, sometimes using alliances with other trouble makers who would also leave him immediately they discovered his selfish motives”.
“APC supporters in Zamfara have grown wiser and more loyal to political leaders like Matawalle, Senator Yari and many others who carry them along, which is why the party won the just concluded Kaura Namoda South State House of Assembly bye election with a wide margin against the runner up (PDP) without any input from the likes of Marafa who tried to sabotage APC’s chances of winning through anti-party maneuvers that didn’t work for them”.
Danfulani described as laughable that “Marafa who couldn’t win even his ward of Yandoton daji or his local government of Tsafe or his central constituency, could boast of reducing one million votes out of President Bola Ahmed’s votes of 2023. The question here is, from where will Marafa get these votes because the entire Zamfara State votes in 2023 were not close to one million votes except if he is going to use his bragging nature of how he did to Senator Ikra Aliyu Bilbis that even his boys such as Aliyu MC , Abubakar Doctor can defeat Ikra to the extent of saying even his vagabond Muzakkiru can defeat Senator Bilbis and boasted that if Ikra Defeated Muzakkiru he will retire from politics and he was defeated despite the conduct of supplementary election in his constituency.”
“Marafa should know that nemesis of his deeds in form of betrayal and deceit will continue to haunt him because even in 2011 he was sponsored by the same Yari he is now envying to win his Senatorial seat and the second attempt was met with heavy resistance from party leaders of his constituency but with the intervention of the former Zamfara State Deputy Governor, Mallam Ibrahim Wakkala Muhammad at the presidential Lodge, Gusau, to consider and support Marafa if not he wouldn’t ha won even at primary election” the statement added.
“Let’s put the records straight, what is expected from Senator Marafa during the interview is to tell the world how many votes he secured himself and that of his opponent in the last election before talking about reducing President Bola Ahmed votes while peddling lies and parapaganda that are dead on arrival”.
“We urge him to come to Zamfara and reassess his popularity among the electorate, we believe he will bury himself in shame” Danfulani stated.
“His unguarded utterances are just out of frustration of loosing election and his inability to secure appointments in President Bola Ahmed Tinubu administration”.
“Ordinarily, if not because he touched the President in his uncivilised manner, we would not have responded to a lower and rejected politician like him”.
“It is high time he shines his eyes and face reality as Zamfara APC is now formidable, united and victory is on its side that no amount of media campaigns can distract our achievements as being demonstrated in the just-concluded byelection in Kaura Namoda South State House of Assembly constituency”.
