Hafiz Naeem-ur-Rehman starts conceding defeat in Karachi mayoral poll: Saeed Ghani
Ghani said that he had disclosed before the May 9 violent incidents in the country that the newly elected local government representatives of Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf had informed their party leadership that they wouldn’t vote in favour of the JI’s candidate for the mayoral poll.
Hafiz Naeem-ur-Rehman starts conceding defeat in Karachi mayoral poll: Saeed Ghani
Karachi : Sindh Labour and Human Resources Minister, Saeed Ghani, has said the Jamaat-e-Islami Karachi leader Hafiz Naeem-ur-Rehman has started conceding his defeat in the upcoming mayoral election after sensing that he doesn’t have the support of the people.
The Sindh Labour Minister, who is also PPP Karachi President, stated this while talking to media persons here outside the Election Commission of Pakistan office on Saturday. Ghani said that he had disclosed before the May 9 violent incidents in the country that the newly elected local government representatives of Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf had informed their party leadership that they wouldn’t vote in favour of the JI’s candidate for the mayoral poll.
He said the JI Karachi leader should tell how many of the newly elected local government representatives of his own party and that of the PTI had come when they were invited to Idara Noor-e-Haq for a reception. He disclosed that a few UC Chairmen of the PTI and not all the newly elected local government representatives had reached Idara Nooor-e-Haq after receiving the invitation as resultantly Hafiz Naeem-ur-Rehman had to cancel the reception.
Ghani said that he couldn’t do anything if the JI Karachi leader alleged that a newly elected UC Chairman of the PTI had been abducted after he refused to vote in favour of the JI’s mayoral candidate. He told journalists that the government was under an obligation to produce for mayoral election the PTI’s UC Chairmen who had been imprisoned after lodging the FIR against them. But the government couldn’t compel any of these UC Chairmen to vote in favour of the JI’s candidate.
To a question, he said that there was consensus within the PPP in finalising the party’s candidate for Karachi mayoral poll as all reports taking rounds in this regard were completely baseless. He said that besides himself, PPP Sindh President Nisar Khuhro, Sindh General Secretary Waqar Mehdi, Karachi General Secretary Javed Nagori, Deputy General Secretary Najmi Alam, and office-bearers of the party from all the districts were present at the time of filing of nomination papers by Barrister Murtaza Wahab showing that there was complete consensus in choosing the party’s mayoral election.
He said that on the basis of the ongoing collective efforts of all the key PPP leaders, the party’s candidates would win the upcoming elections for Karachi mayor and deputy mayor. He said that all the dreams of Hafiz Naeem-ur-Rehman in this regard would be shattered on June 15. To another question, Ghani volunteered to earnestly persuade the top leadership of his party if Hafiz Naeem-ur-Rehman agreed to become Karachi’s deputy mayor.
He said it was the desire of the PPP to take along all the political parties, which had won seats in the local government elections in the city, in managing affairs of Karachi.