Ten political parties in Yobe State said they had adopted Alhaji Adamu Waziri of Peoples Democratic Party, PDP for Saturday’s governorship election against the incumbent, Alhaji Ibrahim Gaidam of All Progressives Congress, APC. Alhaji Mohammed Adam, spokesman of the parties, said Waziri had been adopted by the National Democratic Party, Alliance for Democracy, Action Congress of Nigeria, United Nigeria Peoples Party, and Progressives Peoples Alliance.
He listed the other parties as Democratic Peoples Party, Labour Party, Mega Peoples Political Party, National Democratic Party and New Democrats.
“We endorsed Alhaji Adamu Waziri as ourr sole candidate because we have strong faith in Waziri changing the phase of development in the state,” he said.
However, Alhaji Abubakar Bakabe, Secretary of the APC in the state, dismissed the adoption, describing the 10 political parties as, “non –existing” and therefore had “no followership”.
“APC is not scared of an empty merger; we are adequately prepared to beat PDP in the governorship elections, like we did in the presidential election.
“The path to defeating PDP is a regular terrain and APC is more prepared this time to crush PDP with landslide victory.
“We are therefore expecting them to congratulate us very soon, in the spirit of sportsmanship, as exemplified by the PDP national leader.” said the secretary
(NAN)
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