2027: Six Yobe APC guber aspirants reject Wali’s adoption, insist on fair contest

Six governorship aspirants of the All Progressives Congress (APC) person unanimously rejected the reported adoption of erstwhile Secretary to the Yobe State Government, Alh. Baba Mallam Wali, arsenic the party’s statement governorship campaigner for Yobe State, insisting that lone a escaped and just superior predetermination volition beryllium acceptable to them.

They made their presumption known successful a connection issued astatine the extremity of a gathering held connected Thursday successful Abuja, wherever issues of communal interest were discussed.

The aspirants see Ibrahim Mohammed Bomai, legislator representing Yobe South; Bashir Sheriff Machina, erstwhile Chairman of the Governing Council of the Nigerian Shippers’ Council; and Kashim Musa Tumsah, erstwhile committee subordinate of the NNPCL.

Others are Engr. Mustapha Yunusa Maihaja, erstwhile NEMA DG; Lawan Kolo Geidam, erstwhile Mandate Secretary, Youths and Sports, FCT; and IGP Mohammed Alkali Baba, erstwhile Inspector-General of Police, who unanimously described the adoption of Wali arsenic a usurpation of the Electoral Act and the APC Constitution.

Part of the connection read: “That the purported endorsement of a peculiar campaigner arsenic the APC gubernatorial statement campaigner does not conform with the wide requirements and provisions of the Electoral Act 2026 and the APC Constitution and is truthful unacceptable.

“That the relevant...