Tambuwal ready to work with opposition APC members, says aide

Governor Aminu Tambuwal of Sokoto state is ready to work with the opposition All Progressives Congress (APC) to move the state forward, his Senior Special Assistant on Special Duties, Yusuf Dingyadi has said.

The governor urged the leadership of the APC and their supporters to join his administration in moving the state forward.

Dingyadi, who spoke to newsmen on Monday in Kaduna, said “it is time to move on after the concluded governorship and state assembly elections.”

The aide however, said that while the governor would leave his doors open for all to join the PDP-led-government in steering the affairs of state, the administration would not condone any form of post-election violence in any part of the state.

He urged aggrieved political parties and persons not to resort to violence, but approach the election petition tribunal to peacefully seek redress in accordance with the law.

It would be recalled that the Chairman of the APC in Sokoto state, Alhaji Isa Sadiq, in a statement on March 30, assured of retrieving what he described as the “party’s gubernatorial mandate stolen by the Peoples Democratic Party at all cost.”

The APC chairman had averred that “such deluded and misplaced outcries by Gov. Tambuwal are in-efficacious, just as they are immaterial and ineffectual.

“Nobody had used the powers or prowess of any federal agency, rather, the teaming supporters of the party and the electorate state-wide had cast their votes massively for the APC candidates at all levels.

“The massive and colossal votes cast for our candidates at all levels, including President Muhammadu Buhari, showed that the people love and cherish the APC and it remains the party to beat.

“The electorate had since lost confidence in the PDP which had fielded expired and lesser candidates who lacked even the least of support. The APC is extremely optimistic that, the stolen mandate would be retrieved at the gubernatorial election tribunal which is expected to commence sitting in Sokoto soon,’’ he said.