Kabiru Marafa, an ally of President Bola Ahmed Tinubu has dumped him and the ruling All Progressives Congress, APC .
Worse still, the former senator representing Zamfara state has also vowed to work against the president in the next election in 2027 by “deducting one million” votes from whatever Tinubu gathers in the upcoming election in two years time.
Marafa, was until lately a strong supporter of the president, but alleged that he has been marginalized in the APC, saying the reason why he’s in politics is to be in government so that he can help his people.
The senator spoke on Monday on Channels Television programme, Politics Today, stressing that he would ensure that Tinubu is punished in the election, for using and dumping him, after he worked for the president in the 2023 election.
He also accused the president of focusing on the south, particularity Lagos , where he hails from, whereas he has abandoned the north.
Marafa: “I’m going to assure you something today. I’m going to deduct one million out of Mr. President’s votes that he got in 2023. Mark my words. I’m going to do it. I would work for it and by the special grace of God, I’m going to win that.
“Now, whether somebody said that I’m paperweight, I’m a lightweight; whatever I’m, 2027 is going to determine who is a paperweight.”
He explained that the struggle to ensure that the president is not returned to office, has started, saying his people are with him on this project.
“And again, let me tell you. In 2023, just to tell the level at which our politics have come up today. Because of the heavy disenchantment of the people, all people, anybody that you can call substance in Zamfara State, we’re on one side.
“And there’s Dauda, who has never been in politics except in 2023, was able to secure victory against all of us. Four former governors, how many senators? How many members of the House of Representatives? This is the same type of sentiment that people canvassed at that time, that who’s Dauda? Dauda cannot do anything. Dauda is this, Dauda is that.
“Now, the only election that we’re able to win was that of Mr. President and courtesy of the message that we took to the people that Mr President promised that he was going to change the reward system of the APC.
“Because people were not happy with the tail end of Buhari’s government. He promised that he was going to eradicate the concept of monkey dey work, baboon dey chop. Only for him to entrench it, institutionalized it and it became the state policy of the APC,” he stated.
Marafa, the magazine reports, is among some northern leaders who have recently declared war on the president, after they accused him of marginalisation and nepotism.
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