Leadership Crisis Rocks Zamfara Inter-Party Advisory Council

Crisis has erupted in the Zamfara State Chapter of Inter-Party Advisory Council (IPAC) as the warring parties have failed to agree on the modalities for the election of new leaders of the group.

In a press release by Young Progressive Party (YPP) state chairman, Ambassador Adamu Yusuf Tsafe, said the election could not hold as a result of “misguided behaviour” of some individuals belonging to a particular party (APM) who allegedly ganged up against majority of political parties in the state which formed the council.

He said some concerned members who constitute over 2/3 of the council resolved to resist any move to install APM state chairman on them as caretaker committee chairman. The council therefore said for peace to reign, while forming the caretaker committee, the majority’s interest must be respected.

He said this was the second time the current national certain chairman of IPAC had a failed mission in Zamfara where he was to conduct/oversee an election and in trying to install certain candidates, there was a disagreement which enabled him to dissolve the council and constituted a caretaker committee.

“These individuals, having the national chairman on their side, decided to come to Zamfara State to superintend an election that would have been concluded peacefully, but for their selfish interest, rendered the election impossible and cancelled it,” he alleged

According to him, the national chairman of APM, who doubles as the national chairman of the Inter-Party Advisory Council, organised his members that is the APM national officers acting as Zamfara State Electoral Committee secretary and the Sokoto State chairman of APM to come to Zamfara, ambush and install their candidate who is the APM state chairman.

“On realising that they were bound to fail, they organised thugs who entered the venue and disrupted the election. We believe their action is intentional and to create a room for the installation of their candidate as caretaker chairmen,” the statement concluded.