The Zamfara State chapter of the All Progressives Congress (APC) has resolved to investigate the membership card doctored to contain an edited picture of the notorious bandit kingpin, Bello Turji and making him look like a registered member of the party.
APC Publicity Secretary, Yusuf Gusau in a statement issued Tuesday accused those he described as
This was carried out by mischievous elements who are not happy with the smooth, successful and coordinated manner the ongoing e-registration of members is going in the state.
He said: “The Zamfara State chapter of the All Progressives Congress (APC) has today come across a forged APC membership card doctored to contain an edited picture of the notorious bandit kingpin Bello Turji and making him look like a registered member of the party.
“This was carried out by mischievous elements who are not happy with the smooth, successful and coordinated manner the ongoing e-registration of members is going in the state.
“Even to the man on the street, the forgery is detectable right from the card in which there’s the emboldened “26” on the date referred to the 26th day of January.
“Similarly, the photograph of the hardened criminal used on the card is his picture popularly known by both security agencies and Nigerians in general.”
Gusau noted that no person could be duly registered without a NIN number which Turji hasn’t, and therefore making nonsense of the efforts of the mischief makers for failing to realise that APC programmes are mostly flawless.
He added that the forgers forgot that before any person is enrolled by NIMC he must fill a form that will contain his full information before he is captured. “How then could NIMC capture him with military uniform and gun on his shoulders or are they blind or had forgotten that such features are not acceptable,” Gusau queried.
He said, “Also, from our records of todays registration from Kware ward we did not have the ID number with the initial ID code ’26’ which is for Niger state but forged for Zamfara membership card, talkless of the name.”
“Preliminary investigation has already linked the mischievous card to one of Sani Abdullahi Shinkafi’s boys Babangida Aliyu Shinkafi (Waziri) who was recently suspended from participating in the ongoing e-registration programme due to his dubious attitude.
“The forgery is linked to him because it first appeared on his facebook page.
“Bottomline is, the APC e-registration coordination in Zamfara State and indeed the state’s chapter of the party wish to completely debunk and distance themselves from the fake membership card with registration number: ID: APC 261113000102 the code use is for Niger state which start with 26 while Zamfara code ID code start with 36 which clearly show their ignorance on the registration we call on the well meaning citizens to disregarded by the public while investigation over the fabricators is being conducted.
“We have reported the forgery case to the security agencies and we are sure the perperator will be arrested and prosecuted soon.”