Some members of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Zaria
area of Kaduna state engaged in a physical combat on Monday, October 27
at Teejay palace following a heated argument.
According to Nigerian Tribune, the crisis within the party leadership
in Zaria and Sabongari local government areas of the state prevented
Malam Nasir El-Rufai from holding a meeting with the party executives in
the two local government areas.
El-Rufai, who is a gubernatorial aspirant on the platform of the APC,
was scheduled to meet with some party chieftains from Zaria and
Sabongari at the Kongo Conference Hotel and Teejay Palace Hotel.
An unidentified issue was said to have caused an argument which stalled the meeting.
“The meetings ended up unceremoniously due to interruption of
party loyalists as a result of leadership crisis at both wards and local
government levels. At the Kongo Conference Hotel, glasses of the
sliding doors were broken by members who chanted offensive slogans. Also
at Teejay Palace, there was a physical combat among party stalwarts who
protested the presence of one of the party executive members in the
meeting,” a source said.
El-Rufai later had the opportunity of addressing the executive members, though in a rowdy session.
He told them the national leadership of APC would look into the leadership crisis in Zaria.
He also promised the people that if he emerged as the governor of the state, he would be just to all.
On September 17, there were reports that El-Rufai had officially declared his intention to run for Governor of Kaduna state on the platform of the APC.
The former FCT minister later disclosed that his reason for contesting was borne out of the need to rescue his beloved state.
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