Adamawa APC aspirant Girei rejects omission from governorship primary list

One of the governorship aspirants of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Adamawa State, Salihu Girei, who participated in the party’s primary conducted on Thursday, has rejected his alleged unexplained omission from the exercise.

In a complaint letter issued to newsmen on Friday evening, Girei said that, in line with the party’s guidelines, he honoured the invitation of the screening committee and participated in the screening exercise.

“However, to my utmost surprise, I discovered that the list released by the committee responsible for conducting the primary election omitted my name entirely without any explanation or stated reason,” he stated.

He explained that at no point after his screening was he notified of any disqualification, adverse finding, or decision affecting his eligibility and was also never invited or requested to appear before the Post-Screening Appeal Committee.

“Therefore, throughout the process, there was nothing whatsoever to indicate that I had been disqualified or was otherwise excluded from participation in the primary election,” he added.

He stressed that the omission raises serious concerns about fairness, transparency and equal opportunity in the conduct of the party’s internal democratic process and has effectively denied him the opportunity to participate in the exercise.

He added that in view of the foregoing, “I humbly appeal to the National Chairman, through the Adamawa State APC Appeal Committee, to kindly intervene by reviewing the circumstances surrounding my omission, restoring my name on a revised list of cleared aspirants, and ordering the conduct of a fresh primary election to enable me participate fully and fairly in the process.”

Salihu Girei’s complaint was made public a couple of hours after the APC declared Ahmed Tijani Galadima as the winner of the Adamawa APC governorship primary.

Adamawa APC aspirant Girei rejects omission from governorship primary list