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A former governor of Zamfara State, Abdulaziz Yari is leading a team of aggrieved Northern leaders of the ruling All Progressives Congress to secretly work for the presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) Atiku Abubakar, SaharaReporters has gathered.

According to multiple sources, Yari recently met with Atiku in Paris, while on his way to the US.

He and others were said to have threatened to sabotage the presidential campaign of their party and its candidate, Bola Tinubu in the Northern region.

Multiple sources in the campaign council of the presidential candidate of the APC said intelligence reports at their disposal revealed that Yari is secretly working for the opposition party.

He was quoted as accusing the national leaders of the party and Tinubu of disregarding his nominations to the presidential campaign council.

Yari, who was one of the founding of the APC from the defunct All Nigerian Peoples Party (ANPP) bloc has been relegated to the background by the party leadership and President Muhammadu Buhari's istration since Governor Bello Matawalle dumped the PDP for the APC.

“With everything he did for Buhari and the APC in Zamfara, he said he and his numerous ers were abandoned. Rather than rewarding him for the investment he made for the APC, he has been running a battle with the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC),” one of the sources said.

In May, he was arrested by the EFCC over alleged illegal financial dealings and misappropriation of funds.

SaharaReporters gathered that Yari was arrested over his alleged role in the judgment debts around the Paris Club refunds as claimed by some private firms.

His handling of the proceeds of the Paris Club refunds from 2017, when he was the chairman of the Nigeria Governors’ Forum, to May 2019 when his two as governor ended, is being investigated.

A court document was filed by the EFCC in 2017 which reveals the suspicious nature of payments made by the Yari-led NGF to consultants and firms who were said to have helped the forum to recover funds with the London and Paris clubs loan between 1995 and 2002.

In the document, the EFCC stated that it received intelligence in January 2017 alleging “conspiracy, criminal misappropriation of public funds involving the sum of N19,439,225,871.11 out of the Paris Club refunds made by the Federal Government in favour of the 36 states of the federation.”

The commission had in the court filing, sought an order of forfeiture of N500 million and $500,000 allegedly recovered from Yari.

Also in February 2021, Yari was arrested and grilled by EFCC operatives in Lagos, while the Federal High Court in Abuja on January 26, 2021, ordered the final forfeiture of funds belonging to Yari, domiciled in Zenith and Polaris banks.

The judgment followed investigations that Yari had suspicious monies stuffed in his bank s including the sum of $56,056.75 reportedly lodged in his with Polaris Bank; N12.9 million, N11.2 million, $303 million, N217,388.04, and $311.8 million said to be kept in different Zenith Bank s in the name of the ex-governor and his companies.

Another reason reportedly given by Yari for hobnobbing with Atiku and other chieftains of the PDP was the refusal of Tinubu to give him a key role in his campaign team.

"We are monitoring those who are plotting against Asiwaju (Tinubu). They are APC during the day but at night, they are with Atiku. Yari met Atiku in Paris recently while on his way to the US,” a member of the APC Presidential Campaign Council told SaharaReporters.

He said after the meeting abroad, the former governor met several times with the former Senate President, Bukola Saraki, who is a special adviser to Atiku's campaign council.

"Twice, he has also met with the vice-presidential candidate of the PDP, Ifeanyi Okowa and other governors who are with Atiku in the PDP. He has also met with the Rivers State governor, Nyesom Wike," he said.

On July 19, Yari was with Wike in Rivers State, where he extensively discussed issues revolving around the 2023 presidency.

Another source in the APC said they are monitoring three governors and two former governors in the Northwest geopolitical zone who are hobnobbing with Atiku.

"Yari is at the forefront of Atiku's project in the Northwest. He is together with three serving and two former governors. We know he is one of the fifth columnists and that was why he was not considered for any major assignment in the campaign council,” the source, a senior member of the APC presidential campaign said.

He said the recent visit of Tinubu to Yari in Abuja was arranged by a former governor who was also involved in the Atiku project.

"They organised the meeting to cover up their machinations against Asiwaju. But we are fully aware of their antics and machinations. They won't go anywhere," he added.

According to him, the former Lagos State governor named Bello Matawalle, the Zamfara State governor as his Northwest zonal coordinator following the report.

"Asiwaju also allowed Matawalle to name the Zamfara State Coordinator of his campaign council," the source said.

It was further gathered that one of Atiku's daughters, Maryam and one of the aides of Matawalle, Asalam A. Aliyu have been reaching out to stakeholders in Zamfara State with Yari giving them "fatherly " to promote Atiku's candidature.

This comes a few days after the Northern Elders Consultative Forum, including Christian leaders in the APC in the North, formally adopted Atiku for the 2023 presidential election.

According to them, the PDP candidate was adopted following the resolution of the Northern Christian leaders to work with their Muslim counterparts to adopt one of the presidential candidates in a bid to defeat the same-faith presidential ticket of the APC.

Efforts made by SaharaReporters to reach Yari on the phone were not successful.

https://saharareporters.com/2022/12/12/2023-presidential-election-former-zamfara-governor-yari-northern-apc-leaders-secretly

Mtcheeeeew..... That's the game.....it's politics......

The APC actually disappointed naysayers in the opposition who expected a major fallout of after the party primaries.

The party under the strategic coordination of Tinubu has being able to hold tight and galvanized hip from the top to bottom.

Damnnn niggar

Tinubu don't know what he has put his hand into

Proudly Obidient

#OBI

No yawa

All na work

APC is gone

they are all working for Atiku

Today’s Beautiful Message is about Sneezing Abu Burda (RA) reported: I visited Abu Musa (RA), as he was in the house of the daughter of Fadl b. 'Abbas (RA). I sneezed but he did not respond to it (by saying): Allah may have mercy upon you. Then she sneezed and he (Fadl b. 'Abbas) said: May Allah have mercy upon you. I came back to my mother and informed her about it, and when he came to her she said: My son sneezed in your presence and you did not say:" Allah may have mercy upon you, and she sneezed and you said for her:" May Allah have mercy upon you." Thereupon he said: Your son sneezed but he did not praise Allah and I did not beg mercy of Allah for him and she sneezed and she praised Allah and so I said: May Allah have mercy upon you, as I heard Allah's Messenger (peace be upon him) as saying: When any one of you sneezes he should praise Allah and the other should say: May Allah have mercy upon you, and if he does not praise Allah, no mercy should be begged for him. (Sahih Muslim 2992, Book 55, Hadith 71) Know the etiquette of small things we face daily. Be it what to say when sneezing, entering or exiting the toilet, waking up or going to sleep, there is so much guidance and duas for each act. The more you look into this etiquette, you’ll be inspired and blessed as you Allah at all times.

Buharis candidate in this coming presidential elections is no other person but one Atiku Abubakar!

From the day Atiku refused mounting serious challenges to his electoral losses to Buhari, preferring to relocate to Dubai instead, you should know something is in the offing. The Daurra Disasters politics is very predictable. It has always been tribe over country for him from Day one! Those who want to be fooled will be fooled. They will borrow Lagos into a pit latrine to sponsor an incoherent presidential run that will end up in an earthshattering heartbreak. The northern plan would have blown open if the South West ed Osibanjo.

The North knows very well that Osibanjo was not going to bend over and allow them rape the country ceaselessly as they have been doing for eons. But the corrupt clan of agbadorian inbreds all voted for a renowned criminal in Bola Tinupoo to be made the president. To them it is nothing but a "turn by turn looting spree" of a democracy! What they did with that choice was to provide Buhari with the leeway he badly needed in other to manouver his choosen fulani successor into office. Easily too since the drug lord is unsellable electorally.. Blame the Agbadorians for that..

The breakfast don dey dawn small small

There is nothing we didn’t hear before the APC primaries that everybody in the north wanted a presidential flagbearer from the north. They even said Buharywas going to endorse a candidate from the north. Alas they were all wrong, just as they are wrong about this too. Instead the APC is galvanizing and waxing stronger and stronger by the day, and receiving decampees both from the PDP and LP.
Asiwaju has a way weathering the storm.
Mark my words Asiwaju is the next president of this country

Okay, day go soon break.

I am a yoruba girl from Ekiti state but I won't vote for Tinubu because that would be a vote against my conscience.

Vote wisely, not tribe or religion

As Osinbajo sang " las las na everybody go chop breakfast". As in, I laff everytime I hear some people address Tinubu as a presidential aspirant. He's not. He's Super Mario, and Shettima is Luigi together looking for the princess they can save. They are not in the race at all. It's people like Yari that are giving Atiku silly confidence. At the end of the day, Atiku will collect wotowoto and he will relocate to Dubai. As for Baba Lagos, it's game over for him.

only someone deceiving himself will try to pretend not to know that the North (with exception of North Central) will work for Atiku.
That's what amuses me with urchins here who try to arrogate northern votes to Tinubu. Una neva see anything yet

Aufbauh:
The APC actually disappointed naysayers in the opposition who expected a major fallout of after the party primaries.

The party under the strategic coordination of Tinubu has being able to hold tight and galvanized hip from the top to bottom.

Keep decieving yourself

Mpcoll001:
No yawa

Omo yawa de well.....meaning problem de wella for ur tinubu
D presidency are working for Atiku my beloved candidate.
@waziri carry go joooooor nothing do u

Baba said it UNITE to get victory

After the game u change it jump carpet

Aufbauh:
The APC actually disappointed naysayers in the opposition who expected a major fallout of after the party primaries.

The party under the strategic coordination of Tinubu has being able to hold tight and galvanized hip from the top to bottom.

be there and speak grammar while your people die of hunger.

But no one is working for OBI




TINUBU is winning though

Nonsense propaganda.

Bola Ahmed Tinubu is Nigeria next president. Zombidients and Atikulators can go ahead and hang themselves

FOOTSOLDIER2:
Okay, day go soon break.

I am a yoruba girl from Ekiti state but I won't vote for Tinubu because that would be a vote against my conscience.

Vote wisely, not tribe or religion

omo Igbo, stop denying ur people

The good news is that they are not Working for Labour party.


May the best candidate win

Tinubu will be disappointed