The Members of the Primary Election Committee of the All Progressive Congress (APC) sent to conduct the elections for the party’s senatorial tickets in Taraba state, were rescued from a mob attack by the police.
Channels Television reported that they were ambushed and almost lynched by aggrieved party members on Saturday May 29, for allegedly conniving with a faction of the party to manipulate the outcomes of the exercise
The committee members led by Muhammad Alkali were on their way from Yola in Adamawa when they were stopped at a point, some a few kilometres to Jalingo, by a faction of aspirants who allegedly asked that the election result sheets be handed over to them.
Some party members who got a wind of the incident were said to have rushed to the scene and threatened to lynch the members of the committee, but the quick intervention of the police who came to their rescue.
Shortly after the incident, the secretary of the committee, Yahaya Suleiman, read out a resolution reached by the aspirants while addressing reporters at the police headquarters in the state capital.
He said;
“We are not under duress to address you, but here are the resolutions reached; that result sheets were not made available to us from the APC National Secretariat.
“That the results were sent and received by Taraba State APC Chairman earlier and on arrival, we were informed that the result sheets were vandalised and that soft copies were consequently sent to us for the primary election.
“That indirect mode of primary elections be adopted for northern and central senatorial zones, while the southern zone shall use the direct mode for senatorial primary elections.”
