APC elders warn Tinubu may face electoral risk in Adamawa over candidate imposition

Members of the APC Elders Forum successful Adamawa Central senatorial portion person warned that President Bola Tinubu could look difficulties winning Adamawa State successful the 2027 predetermination if concerns implicit the alleged imposition of candidates are not addressed.

Speaking astatine a property league successful Yola connected Thursday, the group’s spokesperson, Mohammed Jimeta, said the ruling enactment risks repeating mistakes that contributed to the PDP’s decision successful 2015.

Referring to the 2015 governorship predetermination successful Adamawa, Jimeta said, “In 2015, President Goodluck Jonathan and different PDP chieftains sat successful Abuja and appointed the contiguous National Security Adviser, Malam Nuhu Ribadu, arsenic the governorship candidate, but the radical of Adamawa State voted for the idiosyncratic they wanted arsenic governor.”

He questioned the emergence of Mustapha Salihu arsenic the party’s senatorial candidate, arguing that Salihu contested for governorship alternatively than the Senate during the primaries.

“The President himself knows that Mustapha Salihu did not contention for the Senate; helium contested for governor. It was Abdulraheem Abbati who contested for the Senate successful the Central senatorial zone. So, however tin Salihu go the senatorial campaigner successful the zone?” Jimeta asked.

The elders insisted that, for fairness and justice, the summons should beryllium fixed to Abdulraheem Abbati, who they said legitimately contested for the seat.

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