By Tina George, Minna
The three victorious senatorial candidates of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Niger State have threatened the national headquarters of the party that APC will surely lose the state if their names was substituted as claimed in some quarters.
The candidates has vowed to ensure that the imposed candidates will not win the 2019 elections in the state.
Alhaji Muhammad Bima who won the Niger South senatorial contest of APC issued this warning in a statement in Minna on behalf of two other candidates who won the October 2nd senatorial primaries.
He declared that they will not sit back and watch their mandates to be given to those who are not true to the cause of the party.
“We’ve heard of the plans by the officials in Abuja to replace our names with those of the incumbent senators. We want to tell the party that doing so will elicit three things. One, it would destroy APC in Niger State. Two, it would tantamount to stealing the people’s mandate. And finally, APC would lose elections in the state because the people whose mandates were stolen would vote against the imposed candidates by giving sympathy votes to other parties.”
The statement further said that the desire for APC to get the numbers to impeach the Senate President should not be done at the risk of losing the parties.
“Interestingly, those that the party is trying to give automatic tickets by supplanting us are friends of the Senate President. Therefore, it is improbable that they would turn around and fight him even after being given the tickets. But by then it would have been too late because the party would not have been able to change their names.”
The candidates urged the party leadership to uphold the principles of democracy by submitting their names to Independent Electoral Commission (INEC) claiming that they won in a free and fair contest and have been accordingly issued certificates of return by the state APC.
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