Poor performance and intra-party crisis has been cited by the Congress for Progressive Change as the reason for their failure in the re run governorship election in Kebbi state.
“The CPC has no problem with the result and shall not contest it in any court,’’ those were the words of the the party Secretary in Kebbi, Alhaji Bashir Matawalle, on Sunday while reacting to the outcome of the election.
“The controversy over CPC’s withdrawal from Saturday’s governorship re-run election should not be blamed on INEC, the CPC did not put its house in order,’’ Matawalle further said.
Alhaji Saidu Dakingari of PDP won the election after scoring 875,492 while Alhaji Abubakar Abubakar of CPC, who withdrew from the race 10 days before the election, scored 17,918.
The CPC secretary berated the crisis in the party and claimed INEC was not informed about their (CPC) withdrawal from the polls; he also said the state secretariat was not informed as well.
Meanwhile the candidate of the All Nigeria People’s Party (ANPP), Alh. Suleiman Argungu has called the election a facade
“Going by the low turnout of voters, the general apathy to the exercise and the lopsided nature of the results, it is clear that the election did not meet expected standards’’ he said.