APC raises alarm over alleged witch-hunt of members in Zamfara

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The purported witch-hunt of its members who participated in the state’s parallel assembly has alarmed Zamfara’s All Progressives Congress (APC).

Malam Yusuf Idris, the party’s publicity secretary, issued a statement on Sunday accusing the Zamfara State government of targeting the nine elected members of the state House of Assembly through the judicial system.

According to the statement, Chief Magistrate Halima Jaafar Mikaila ordered the members’ detention without issuing a formal summons or filing charges.

The statement reads: “We at the Zamfara State chapter of the All Progressives Congress (APC) have found it disturbing and embarrassing how the state government is using the machinery of the judiciary to attack constitutionally elected members of the state House of Assembly for executing their legislative functions and pointing out where the executive is wrong in the discharge of its responsibilities for public interest.”

It went on to say that the Magistrate Court proceeded with the arrest order even though the case was still being considered by the Court of Appeal in Sokoto and petitions were filed with the National Security Adviser, the Director General of the DSS, the Inspector General of Police, and other relevant parties.

“We therefore call on the state government under Governor Dauda Lawal to stop this harassment, sit with the aggrieved members, and amicably resolve the crisis in order to move the state forward,” the APC demanded.

The statement concluded, “APC will continue to be on the right side of the law and will not allow judicial officers to be politicized and used against public interest.”

“We will resist any attempt to witch-hunt the members just for voicing out the security situation of their constituencies, which the Zamfara State government failed to address,” the party reiterated.

As a lesson to other judicial officers, the APC also urged the displeased members to petition the Judicial Service Commission against the politically influenced court order.

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