Governor Muhammad Badaru of Jigawa, has said he did not “connive” with his Ekiti counterpart, Kayode Fayemi, on the outcome of the All Progressives Congress (APC) governorship primary in the state.
Baduru, who was the chairman of the primary election committee, made this known on Friday during an interview on Channels Television.
The primary election, which was conducted On Thursday, saw Biodun Oyebanji, a former secretary to the Ekiti state government (SSG), emerged as the winner, having polled 101,703 votes.
Asked to react to allegations that the primary election was rigged, the Jigawa governor said: “I heard a lot of allegations. That will always come in politics because people will allege different things, but all the aspirants know that nobody in this country will make me write a result that is not genuine,”
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“I can never sit down and write results. Nobody can push me to do that. I can’t. Let them come and challenge that we wrote the result and the election did not happen.
“Above all, right in the heart, they (referring to the seven aspirants who withdrew) know I didn’t connive with anybody to shortchange them.”
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Asked if he connived with Fayemi, Baduru said: “No. Ask Fayemi. Even Fayemi will not ask me to do the wrong thing. He will not. He knows I will not do it,”
Badaru added: “Every ward of the 166 that election took place, it was done freely and fairly and if things were done badly, it could have been a problem and it could have been the same with 11 wards that were disrupted,”
