By Aideloje Ojo
Minna
The Presidential candidate of the African Democratic Congress (ADC), Alhaji Atiku Abubakar has been urged to immediately intervene and resolve the internal crisis rocking the party in Niger state which has resulted in festering different factions and capable of undermining the success of the party in the 2027 general elections.
The ADC House of Representative candidate for Borgu/ Agwara Federal Constituency, Prince Murtala Haliru Dantoro , made the call at the weekend in a press briefing in Minna.
He said, “A house divided against itself cannot stand and a party divided against itself cannot win election as important as 2027 general elections. I therefore respectfully urge our Presidential candidate, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar to urgently look into this matter and act, address the divisions reconcile the factions, restore order and unity within our ranks before ambition and impunity spread further and cause a chaos that none of us wants”.
Dantoro expressed concern over the activities of a faction of the party parading illegitimate candidate for the Borgu/Agwara Federal Constituency, insisting that, “.I am the duly nominated and legitimate House of Representatives candidate for Borgu and Agwara Federal Constituency, flying the flag of our great party, the African Democratic Congress, ADC, for the 2027 general election”.
He argued that his nomination and emergence as the party’s legitimate House of Representative candidate
Is a fact backed from beginning to end, by documentation, adding that every step of the process that brought me to this point was recorded and done in line with the constitution and guidelines of the ADC. There were no shortcuts and no irregularities”.
According to him, every relevant document and every piece of evidence that legitimately and lawfully establishes him as the candidate of the party for Borgu and Agwara constituency is in his possession insisting that, “nothing about my emergence as your candidate is in doubt and nothing about it is hidden”.
He said that it has become aware that in the course of our politics, there are those who parade themselves before the people, claiming a title and a mandate that does not belong to them, adding that this is a serious matter, and it is one he will not treat lightly.
He said that the mobilisation of rural communities as ambassadors of the ADC Presidential candidate have begun and that it will go from house to house, market to market, village to village, to convince Nigerians that Atiku Abubakar is the leader this country needs. “But an ambassador cannot represent a fractured house with confidence.Give us a united party, sir, and we will give you Nigeria”, he pleaded.
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