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       Katsina by-election: How APC candidate, Ahmad Babba-Kaita didn’t
        vote
       By: sparrow Date: August 11, 2018, 12:30 pm
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       After queueing and loitering around the voting premises for
       close to three hours, the APC candidate in the ongoing Katsina
       North senatorial district by-election, Ahmad Babba-Kaita has
       been unable to cast his vote.
       But he vowed he would be ready to offer his blood to win.
       Mr Babba-Kaita, a member of the House of Representatives,
       arrived the Bakin Kasua Primary School, PU 005 at about 12.15
       p.m. but by 3.10 p.m. when he left, he had not voted.
       He had left the queue after about an hour of standing to sit
       under a shade, only to return some minutes to 2 p.m.
       By 2.49 p.m. when it was just his turn, Mr Baba-Kaita left again
       to the surprise of electoral officers and dissatisfaction of a
       PDP agent who fumed at the development.
       Addressing journalists, Mr Baba-Kaita harped on the need for the
       APC to have more senators in the Senate to be able to carry out
       the manifesto of the party.
       He added that he was not worried by the spate of defections
       within the party.
       “The aim of our great party and great president is to make sure
       we have enough number within the Senate to be able to push for
       the campaign promises of the APC government and by extension
       President Muhammadu Buhari.
       “I wouldn’t lose my sleep on it (Defections). Not at all. It’s
       the season. Most of the people decamping, go back to their
       wards, you’ll find out that their political ward is empty,
       nearly empty. They don’t have any political value, they don’t
       have any ticket. The only way they could make noise is to decamp
       from one party to another.
       “It’s very sad that when we are saying we want to develop
       democracy in Nigeria, we don’t have ideals we believe in. And
       any person that doesn’t believe in an ideal is empty. It’s just
       desperation.”
       On why he decided to contest for the senatorial seat, Mr
       Babba-Kaita said his move was in a bid to protect the interest
       of his party. He said he was ready to shed his blood to achieve
       this.
       “I just want to go and protect the interest of my party and I
       will do it to the last of my blood. I will shed my blood for
       this thing because I know the president and APC government have
       tried to bring the change that we deserve it this country. But
       some people are making it almost impossible for the government
       to succeed.”
       Asked his plans for the youth in his constituency, the lawmaker
       said he had a good track record with them while challenging
       journalists to ‘go around my constituency’ to check
       independently.
       On his plans if wins the by-election, Mr Babba-Kaita said, “But
       it’s not about if I’m declared the winner. I’m already the
       winner.”
       At the time of filing this report, the APC candidate was yet to
       vote.
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