Plateau NDC gov'ship crisis: Peter Obi accused of taking sides

A chieftain of the Nigerian Democratic Congress, NDC, successful Plateau State, Comrade Iliya Abdullahi, has accused the party's statesmanlike candidate, Peter Obi, of taking sides successful the lingering quality implicit the party's governorship summons successful the state.

Abdullahi questioned Obi's perceived closeness to Alfred Ali Dapal, whose emergence arsenic a governorship aspirant has reportedly heightened divisions wrong the party, portion the party's recognised candidate, Da Jonathan Sunday Akuns, allegedly struggles to person akin support.

The NDC governorship summons quality successful Plateau State centres connected Dapal and Akuns, with some sides laying assertion to the party's mandate up of the forthcoming election.

Dapal, who antecedently contested the Plateau State governorship superior of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, reportedly near the enactment pursuing its prolonged interior situation and joined the NDC.

However, his introduction into the NDC was followed by different contention implicit the party's governorship nomination. On September 15, 2026, the Plateau State NDC Chairman, Solomon Ndam, reportedly declared Dapal the party's preferred campaigner aft a substitution primary.

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