The Speaker of the House of Representatives, Rt. Hon Aminu Tambuwal is set to succeed Alhaji Aliyu Wamakko as the governor of Sokoto State on the platform of the All Progressive Congress, APC.
It was widely reported yesterday night that the Speaker had defected to the opposition APC, but the report was quickly refuted through a statement issued by the Speaker’s Special Adviser on media, Mallam Imam Imam, saying the Speaker had not defected, but consulting on his next step.
However, reports reaching DailyPost from the APC stakeholders meeting held yesterday in Sokoto suggests that Tambuwal has been endorsed by the governor and other stakeholders in the state to be the next governor of the state.
Alhaji Aliyu Wamakko, the state Governor, had hinted at the meeting of this endorsement when he said ““I want to inform all stakeholders of the APC gathered here that Tambuwal has been with us since formation of our great party. We told him to remain in PDP until the day of nomination of the party’s governorship candidate. And today is the day,”
Tambuwal had been touted as a potential presidential aspirant, but sources say he held back on that to settle for the governorship race in Sokoto because many of the party stalwarts like Governor Rotimi Amaechi of Rivers State and Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, have given their support to General Muhammadu Buhari as the APC presidential candidate.
Although, the Sokoto stakeholders’ meeting was not conclusive on the governorship candidate of the party, the position was however zoned to Tambuwal’s Sokoto South Senatorial District.
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