A group of protesting women in Nasarawa State, who have been peacefully demonstrating against the Appeal Court’s affirmation of Governor Abdullahi Sule as the winner of the 2023 governorship election in the state, have declared that they are indigenes of the state, and not foreigners as alleged by the state’s All Progressives Congress.
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The APC had accused the women of being hired from neighbouring states by the People’s Democratic Party to constitute a nuisance in the state in the guise of protesting against the judgment which nullified the ruling of the Governorship Election Petitions Tribunal that earlier declared David Ombugadu of the PDP as the winner of the election.
Reacting to the allegation on Saturday in Lafia, one of the leaders of the women groups, Auta Cletus, said they would not stop protesting until the PDP governorship candidate, David Ombugadu, reclaims his mandate at the Supreme Court.
She said, “I am a widow. My husband died many years ago. I was born and brought up in the Takpa-Uzi community in the Lafia Local Government Area of the state. We are here today because our son, David Ombugadu, who we voted for has been denied his election victory by desperate politicians in this state.
“As you can see, there are many widows here who are praying for him to succeed because he is the one we voted for during the last governorship election. We voted for him because we believe that he has the solution to our problems.
“I have children who are educated but they have no jobs because the present administration did not make jobs available for the people. I am shocked that the APC people could make such a statement that we are hired from other states. That assumption is incorrect because we are all indigenes of Nasarawa State advocating for the advancement of our dear state.”
While lamenting that the Appeal Court’s judgment fell short of the democratic principles that govern the nation, she called on the Supreme Court judges to carefully observe the governorship election results in the Gayam and Chiroma electoral wards in Lafia Local Government Area of the state.
She added, “The total number of accredited voters in Gayam ward in Lafia Local Government Area, according to INEC, was about 13,000, but INEC allocated 33,000 votes to only the APC. Secondly, in the Chiroma ward of the same Lafia LGA, the number of accredited voters according to INEC’s record is 21,000, but INEC announced 59,000 votes solely for the APC.”
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