Nasir El-Rufai |
Contrary to the report that some groups jointly purchased the 2019 APC
governorship form for Kaduna State governor, Nasir El-Rufai, some groups
mentioned have started dissociating themselves from the news.
Kaduna Market Traders Association, KMTA, has come out dissociate
itself from the list of those said to have purchased the form for the
governor.
In a statement by KMTA and signed by Alhaji Falalu Musa Maidoya,
Alhaji Gafai Boska and Mr. Thomas Yakubu JP, the group said, “We, the
Kaduna Market Traders Association wish to disclaim and denounce the
purported use of our name by some faceless figures in the name of
purchase of APC nomination for Governor Ahmed Nasir Elrufai,”
The statement further explained, “There was never a time the
Association met to decide on whether or not to purchase a nomination
form for the Governor.
“We don’t know the identity of those who paraded themselves as our
officials. Our investigation only revealed to us that those people are
political scammers close to the Governor.
“We contacted members of the other groups whose names were used and
they told us that they are equally unaware of any form of contribution
for the purchase of forms for the Governor.
We are not a partisan organization and never in the 48-year history
of our Association engaged ourselves in such an act of political fraud
and deceit. Our Association comprises non-politicians and politicians
from different parties.
“We have no reason to purchase a form for the Governor whose tenure
has never been helpful to us other than inflicting hardships on our
members.
“All the promises made to us by the Governor in 2015 have never been fulfilled.
“He demolished our shops, increased our taxes, failed to give us the
soft loans he promised and worst of all was that during the last conduct
of our Association election, he sent APC thugs and Policemen of
“Operation Yaki” to invade and scatter our election materials when it
was clear that his stooge lost the election.
“The Association doesn’t have N22 Million Naira to donate to the
Governor. If we have such excess amount of money, we could have used it
to help our members who were recently affected by flood in Kaduna. If he
said he doesn’t have N20million Naira in his account, may God who is
listening to him provide for him. But our name should not be used.
“Not sounding immodest, we appeal to the Governor and his political
friends to stop using our names in what we cannot defend before our
creator in the hereafter.
Kaduna Market Traders Association, KMTA, also called on the Economic
Financial and Crimes Commission, EFCC, to investigate this purported
claim to ascertain its authenticity.
-Daily Post
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