POLITICS TODAY

A group, the El-Rufai/Hadiza Ambassadors (EHA ) has lambasted elements within the Kaduna State PDP for what it considered the use of hacks for the incitement of ethno-religious tensions, ahead of the forthcoming governorship elections.

In a media statement signed by its Chairman Ahmed Sani, the group said it has become compelling to react to “the persistently divisive, hate-inciting tendencies exhibited by the People’s Democratic Party in order to bring about distrust among the good people of Kaduna State to forestall imminent defeat at the coming round of elections”.

The group declared that the latest sign of desperation in that direction was “PDP’s attempt to exploit differences of religious and tribal cleavages to pitch the people of the Southern part of the State against their brothers and sisters in the Northern parts.

“Tactlessly using the obscure name of one David Ayuba Azzaman, the PDP, sensing impending defeat at the scheduled governorship and state assembly elections of March 9, attempted to change historical figures and facts to fan the embers of communal distrust”.

The reaction of El-Rufai/ Hadiza Ambassadors is coming on the heels of a document that has now gone viral, titled “Implications of Elrufai Returning as Governor in Kaduna”, and attributed to one David Ayuba Azzaman.

The group also considered the document as “a veiled admission of defeat from a party struggling to recover from the humiliating scars of the presidential and National Assembly elections”.

The Forum then described the alleged PDP move as “democratically unconventional, unethical, morally repugnant and politically defeatist”, while calling on “the crumbling remains of the party(PDP) to learn how to play politics by its universally-stated rules and not to attempt to drag the State down with it.

“The group then called on the people of the State to “stick to their individual political convictions and to express them accordingly and peacefully at the polls.”