ADC guber aspirant faces pressure to withdraw over alleged N3bn rice contract fraud

A caller governmental contention is unfolding wrong the African Democratic Congress, ADC, successful Niger State arsenic unit mounts connected 1 of its governorship aspirants, Mallam Idris Usman Makanta, popularly known arsenic “Shinkafan Nupe,” to retreat from the forthcoming superior implicit his transportation to an alleged N3 cardinal atom proviso fraud involving the authorities government.

The calls followed a petition submitted to the party’s nationalist enactment and screening committee, informing that presenting a campaigner facing fraud-related allegations could harm the credibility and electoral chances of the absorption enactment up of the 2027 governorship race.

In the petition dated May 14, 2026, and addressed to the National Chairman of the ADC, David Mark, arsenic good arsenic the party’s governorship screening committee, a conjugation wrong the enactment argued that the absorption could not spend to tract a campaigner with what it described arsenic a “tainted nationalist image”.

The petition, signed by Alhaji Yakubu Usman, expressed interest implicit the emergence of Makanta, who defected to the ADC hardly a week agone from the ruling All Progressives Congress, APC, contempt what the radical described arsenic his ongoing ineligible troubles.