‘We Wrote Election Results…, Not Once, Not Twice’ – APC Governor’s Aide Boasts Ahead of 2027 [VIDEO]

The Special Adviser on Political Matters to Kaduna State Governor Uba Sani has openly boasted about the past manipulation and rigging of election results.

Abubakar Mamadi said the past rigging was done in Igabi Local Government Area of Kaduna State.

The development comes amid public concerns that the upcoming 2027 general elections may be rigged in favour of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC), following the controversial 2023 polls, which critics argue were fraught with illegalities.

Governor Uba Sani is a member of the APC and is currently seeking reelection.

Mamadi, a former member of the House of Representatives who represented Igabi Federal Constituency, seems to suggest that the manipulation and irregularities which allegedly characterised the recent APC primaries in Kaduna State could easily be repeated during the 2027 general elections.

The remarks were in response to comments by the former Speaker of the Kaduna State House of Assembly, Yusuf Zailani. Zailani, who recently lost the APC senatorial ticket for Kaduna Central to Senator Shehu Sani, had questioned the electoral strength of the party’s current lineup and accused party leaders of injustice.

In his own video, Zailani had said:
“They went and gave tickets to people who cannot win elections. What they did clearly shows they do not want President Tinubu to win the 2027 election. It is important that we let the cat out of the bag and inform the President that these people are deceiving him and cannot deliver Kaduna for him.

“These threats are unnecessary because nobody can intimidate me. If you rigged the primaries, do you think you can rig the general election? The masses will resist you.”

Responding while hosting political stakeholders from Igabi on Thursday, Mamadi confirmed he had watched the former speaker’s video.

“I saw a video of the former Speaker (Yusuf Zailani) making some claims. I took note of three claims he made in the video,” Mamadi said. “First, he said the primary election results were written and concocted and therefore we cannot win the general election. But I want us to use our brains, since we are not drug addicts.”
Mamadi then went a step further, reminding the former speaker that both of them had a history of manipulating actual general elections, not just internal party primaries.

“I also want to remind him of how both of us, alongside some other people, rigged elections, not only primaries but general elections in the past,” Mamadi boasted.
“We wrote election results in Igabi, not once, not twice. If he has forgotten, it is important to remind him that we wrote election results many times in Igabi. I’m talking about general elections, not primaries. So if he is still thinking about primaries, we have also written general election results.”

Mamadi also mocked Zailani’s assertions that he is not afraid of security agencies, recalling instances where they both allegedly fled from law enforcement.

“Secondly, I also saw him boasting that he is not afraid of anybody or being arrested. Let me remind him of how both of us once sneaked away to evade arrest after we received invitation letters from the Commissioner of Police. So now he is boasting that nobody can arrest him. Who is he fooling?” Mamadi asked.
“When he was also invited by the EFCC, I personally saw how he was sweating and looking frustrated. So why is he now boasting that nobody can do anything to him?”

“Let me tell him that we are strong enough to deal with him even without federal intervention. I want to plead with stakeholders in Igabi to ignore him and not be bothered by his outbursts. He is envious and pained by defeat,” Mamadi added. “He has spent 20 years occupying a particular political position and is now being confronted with the reality that he may lose that seat. Change, even in the scriptures, is inevitable.”