Katsina - Gov. Ibrahim Shema of
Katsina State on Sunday said the
state’s Local Government elections
would be conducted in the first
quarter of 2014.
Shema who disclosed this in
Katsina at a state PDP zonal
meeting said the elections date
would be announced in January for
the political parties to begin
preparations
The governor, who was
represented by Sen. Umar Tsauri,
said all the materials needed for
the exercise were on ground.
The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN)
reports that the 34 local
governments in the state were
being managed by caretaker
committees.
This was as a result of the
expiration of the tenure of elected
council officials early in 2011.
“The elections will take place next
year, God willing, because
everything has been put in place,”
Shema said.
The governor called on PDP
supporters to come out en mass
during the elections to vote for the
party’s candidates.
On the defection from the party to
APC by some members, Shema
said “most of such people are not
original PDP members. Now, they
have joined the group they belong
to”.
He, however, admitted that the
party was facing challenges.
“We all know that PDP is facing
some challenges and anyone
trying to say otherwise is
deceiving himself.”
“But we have been able to identify
those challenges. By identifying
the problem itself, it means half of
the challenges facing us as a party
have been solved,” the governor
said.
Shema however said PDP in the
state would continue with the
zoning and consensus principle.
He also called on party members
to woo to the party’s fold other
people that would help PDP in
achieving its political objectives.
- NAN
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