BREAKING: Tension Spreads as 4 Prominent Political Parties Consider Merging to Unseat APC Governor
- Abdullahi Sule, the governor of Nasarawa state, might have a tough time in his journey to his second term in office as the number 1 citizen of the state
- This is as four prominent political parties plan to merge to unseat the APC governor in Saturday's governorship election
- The political parties are the NNPP, SDP, AA and PRP, as their candidates dismissed claims that they stepped down for the governor
Lafia, Nasarawa - The second-term ambition of Governor Abdullahi Sule of Nasarawa is currently under threat as four political parties are planning to merge and unseat the All Progressives Congress (APC) candidate in the March 18 governorship and state house of assembly election.
According to Daily Independent, the political parties are Social Democratic Party (SDP), Peoples Redemption Party (PRP), New Nigeria People’s Party (NNPP), and Action Alliance (AA).
Source: UGC
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The governorship candidates of the parties, Mustapha Abubakar (SDP), Sen. Yusuf Musa Nagogo (PRP), Abdullahi Yakubu Maidoya (NNPP) and Alaku Godwin (AA), have all agreed to collapse their structure into one to defeat the incumbent Sule.
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The candidates' decision was disclosed at a press conference in Lafia, the state capital, by Maidoya, the NNPP candidate, on behalf of the four candidates of the political parties on Tuesday, March 14.
They also debunked the report that the candidates are collapsing structures for Governor Sule of the APC in the forthcoming election.
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Maidoya maintained that the four political parties would soon merge to work together in the governorship election that would be coming up in four days.
The NNPP candidate said the merger report would be disclosed to the general public and their supporters in the state.
Ogun governorship election: 10 parties team up with PDP to unseat APC governor
Legit.ng earlier reported that there might be pressure on Dapo Abiodun, the governor of Ogun state, as the PDP in the state disclosed that about 10 political parties are working with it to unseat the governor.
Abiodun, who is the candidate of the APC in the March 18 governorship election in the state, is in the race for his second-term ambition.
But Sikiru Ogundele, the chairman of the PDP in the state, disclosed that 10 parties and some aggrieved members of the APC are working with the leading opposition.
Source: Legit.ng
