….unjustifiable denies right candidate from voting
Yesterday (Wednesday) was a shock of it all to the people of Pakka District who were anxiously anticipating a right process that will ensure the selection of their new traditional leader as District head of Pakka, under the Lamido of Mubi Emirate.
Complains and eyes brows went high when the nomination was seen not based on free, fair, and smooth conduct of who becomes the next district head following the death of Alhaji Adamu Abubakar.
An observer following the trend of the leadership of Pakka District, Alhaji Suleman Bayero said Ardo Muhammadu Aliyu, the current village head of Pakka and elder brother to the current chairman, Maiha local government council, Hon. Idi Ali Amin was unjustifiably denied the right to vote himself.
But to his surprise that a dead Man was allegedly said to have been voted while Aliyu who is alive and among those contesting was denied the privilege to vote and be voted for.
He worried that the act is capable of killing the good intentions of why districts were created in Mubi Emirate.
Ardo Aliyu who is also a contender Sule said was not permitted to vote himself, according to him it was a violation of his human right and that entails the violation of the process of ensuring a leader is emerge in any given situation that opportunity abound as it is in the Emirate procedures of voting.
The Mubi Emirate Council, northern senatorial district of Adamawa state Bayero worried is missing out from the Masses emirate to a Palace of only those with the keys to the doors of leadership would become whatever they want to be.
The nomination, which was held Wednesday, November 17, 2021, in the Pakka district, was reported to have been supervised by the delegated members of the Emirate Council, led by Danburam, as returning officers and witnessed by the security agencies.
Four candidates contested for the district head stool, out of which two were nominated for the onward selection by or determination of the Emirate Council. The four candidates are:
1. Yarima Muhammad Adamu Abubakar, holding the title of MaiPakka (whose father it was said, considered as Crown Prince) son of the immediate late district head of Pakka, Ardo Adamu Abubakar – the second district head – holding the Dan-Isa Mubi traditional title, in the Emirate Council
2. Yarima Ahmadu Saibaru, son of the first district head of Pakka, Ardo Saibaru Sanda.
3. Yarima Usman Ahmadu, son of the late and brother to the current village head of Vokna, Ardo Adamu Ahmadu.
4. Ardo Muhammadu Aliyu, the current village head of Pakka and elder brother to the current chairman, Maiha local government council, Hon. Idi Ali Amin.
Five villages constitute the Pakka district, namely; Pakka, Vokna, Gurdufe, Humbutudi, Mbalasi, and Chulangi also referred to as Naddere.
Five village heads (Ardos) of the six villages that form the Pakka district did the nomination.
The village head of Pakka, who is the sixth village head (Ardo) would not nominate because he was among those contesting for the district head stool.
Periscope reported that the selection irregularities just repeated themselves, the commentators of the monarchy in Maiha would analyze that with the creation of Pakka district in 1993, “the first district head, Saibaru Sanda did not nominate even though he was a village head because he was among the candidates contesting.
“Similarly, with the demise of Saibaru Sanda, the first district head of Pakka, Adamu Abubakar, the second district head who was then a village head, did not nominate because he was also contesting for the district headship, wouldn’t he have nominated himself?”
“Four of the five village heads of Gurdufe, Humbutudi, Mbalasi, and Chulangi/Naddere, nominated Yarima Muhammad Adamu Abubakar, the MaiPakka, son of the immediate past district head of Pakka, while the village head of Vokna, Ardo Adamu Ahmadu nominated his brother, Yarima Usman Ahmadu.
“The Emirate Council, having received the result, adjudged to be credible and peaceful nomination, will eventually select the most capable candidate for a district head from among the nominated two, irrespective of the number of votes won by an individual, after which the selected candidate will be recommended to the governor only for the approval of the appointment.
Recall that the Emirate Council has in a meeting held on Wednesday, November 10, 2021, fixed November 17 for the nomination of the new district head of Pakka, following the demise of Alhaji Adamu Abubakar, the second district of the head, which was sad incident occurred on Tuesday, August 3, 2021.
However the supporters of the nominated candidates were happily satisfied that it was a free, fair, and credible nomination devoid of undue interferences, the supporters of the village head of Pakka nursed a reservation that their candidate was disenfranchised for not being allowed to nominate, “at least he would have nominated himself and would have passed for the Emirate Council’s selection.
“It’s a sham exercise. We’ll not let it go without redress. We’re considering going to court to declare the nomination null and void; an exercise in futility”. Periscope reported
Efforts were made by TGNEWS.COM.NG to talk to any official of the Mubi Emirate prove abortive as all calls were not been answered.
