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Nasarawa APC consensus candidature unsettles stakeholders

 

By Francis Nansak, Lafia

Stakeholders across the Thirteen Local Government Areas of Nasarawa State are in a solitary mood owing to the ruling APC decision filed in consensus candidates for the upcoming LGs election .

This moves was however truncated as the various party chairmen at the local government could not successfully handled the political arrangements, leading to the governor being the leader of the party to taking another decision,urging the party to present Three contestant who had satisfactorily gone through the processes of nominations.

Our correspondent gathered that even before the governor the situation has remained the same, as in some of the local government areas who fielded more than three chairs ship candidates the stakeholders could not broker peace .
This has generated perplexity that has since unsettles stakeholders from Karu,Keffi, Nasarawa and Akwanga the home local government area of Governor Abdullahi Sule.

Findings reveals that a group from Nasarawa Local Government Area have threatened to dump the ruling APC should their candidate be dropped from the race.

Speaking recently in Lafia, the state capital, the group working for Faisal’s governorship ambition, known as Faisal Gida-Gida, revealed that arrangements are in top gear; should all their plots fail, their principal and former NPHDA boss would have no option but to leave APC for the opposition to contest the 2027 gubernatorial election in Nasarawa State.

Mallam Abdullahi Abubakar who addressed reporters, stated that several disputes had been resolved in the Governor’s favor, emphasizing that continued disputes would undermine his credibility in the State.

While all these lasted the immediate past Chairman of Keffi Local Government Area, Honourable Mohammed Baba Shehu who is seeking reelection was dropped by the stakeholders alongside two former State Assembly members who had desired to be selected for the post.

It was learnt that reaching the point where the selection did not favoured the immediate past Chairman, he refused to signed the agreement.

Meanwhile in Karu LGA, it is obvious that the former chairman, Honourable James Thomas has been dropped due to a laid down zoning formula which is in favour of Panda ,a development area of Karu.