By MICHAEL DAVID
The Majority Leader of Nasarawa State House of Assembly, Honourable Umaru Tanko Tunga, and Commissioner for Local Government
and Chieftaincy Affairs, Yusuf Aliyu Turaki, narrowly escaped death during Tuesday primary election exercise of All Progressive Congress APC in Awe Local Government Area.
This followed a clash between supporters of the leading chairmanship Aspirants Umaru Tanko Dan Akano and Usman Umaru, who accused each other of plotting to rig the election.
An aide to the immediate past chairman of the local government, Yusuf Dogara, alleged that the Assembly Majority Leader and the commissioner for hijacking the process of the exercise in an attempt to rig and impose their preferred candidate against the wishes of the majority of the electorates.
According to Dogara, “Umaru Tanko Tunga and Commissioner for local government and Chieftaincy Affairs Yusuf Aliyu Turaki used their position to move the primary election from Awe to Lafia, and according to election time table the primary was supposed to end yesterday 27 July 2021 anything beyond yesterday is not election”, he said.
Dogara, while speaking in a telephone interview with our correspondent further alleged that the two politicians succeeded in illegally shifting the election to Lafia, the state capital as against the electoral guidelines issued by the state Independent Electoral Commission.
All effort to reach Majority Leader Umaru Tanko Tunga, on the alleged plot proved abortive as he neither picked phone calls nor responded to text messages to him as at the time of going to press. (Daily Independent)
