The Sokoto State Government has slammed the immediate-past governor of the state, Senator Aminu Tambuwal, and his parry, Peoples Democratic Party, over claim that they were robbed of victory in the 2023 governorship election in the state.
The state’s Commissioner for Information, Sambo Danchadi, in a statement on Wednesday, said the main opposition party must be deluded to imagine that it won the 2023 poll in the state.
While addressing the party supporters and stakeholders in Sokoto recently, Tambuwal claimed that the PDP did not lose the 2023 governorship election in the state but was robbed of victory.
But the APC said the claim that the election was ‘manipulated’ against the PDP’s candidate, Alhaji Sa’aidu Umar, was both ridiculous and insulting to thousands of Sokoto people who voted massively for the ruling party and its governorship candidate, now Governor Ahmed Aliyu.
The commissioner said the PDP was rejected at the poll by the people due to its abysmal performance while in power.
“For the former governor to state that PDP won the 2023 governorship election in the state but was robbed of victory amounted to the desecration of the holy month,” Danchadi said.
He said the PDP only won the majority of votes in five local government areas out of the 23 local government areas in the state.
The commissioner further noted that the APC not only won the election but had justified its victory by addressing the issues over which the election was contested.
He said in the area of security, the state was now secure, adding that sending the PDP out of the Sokoto Government House was a case of good riddance still being celebrated by the people.
He said as the administration nears one year in office, it would soon kick-start the inauguration of projects, which would surpass the performance of the PDP in the state in its eight-year rule.
