Pantami shuns consensus arrangement, submits APC governorship nomination form

Former Minister of Communications and Digital Economy Isa Ali Pantami has officially submitted his governorship information signifier to the nationalist office of the All Progressives Congress (APC) successful Abuja contempt the party’s statement statement successful Gombe State up of the 2027 governorship election.

The improvement comes days aft the APC successful Gombe announced Jamilu Gwamna arsenic the party’s statement governorship candidate.

According to a connection issued by Ismaila Misilli, the determination followed an enlarged stakeholders’ gathering led by Governor Inuwa Yahaya.

However, the Pantamiyya Movement, a enactment radical loyal to Pantami, rejected the arrangement, arguing that it violated the APC constitution and antiauthoritarian principles.

In an interrogation with the BBC Hausa Service, Pantami described the process arsenic a specified enactment and insisted that the enactment should behaviour nonstop primaries.

He said helium would situation what helium described arsenic injustice and enactment whoever emerges done a transparent process.

A connection shared connected Pantami’s X relationship connected Thursday confirmed that members of his enactment radical submitted the information signifier connected his behalf astatine the APC nationalist headquarters.

The connection read: “Professor Isa Ali Pantami has officially submitted his governorship information signifier for Gombe State, purchased for him by youths whose lives person been positively impacted ...