KOGI GUBER: Apprehension in PDP group over ambition of 3 aspirants from same family

The Kogi State chapter of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has been urged to disqualify three aspirants who are from the same family.

And all three are seeking the party’s ticket to contest the governorship election in the state scheduled for November 16.

The call to disqualify the aspirants identified as the former governor of the state, Idris Wada; his younger brother, Engr. Musa Wada; and the brother in-law of Engr. Wada, Mr Abubakar Ibrahim Idris, was made by the Forum of PDP Professionals in Kogi to the National Working Committee (NWC) of the party.

In an open letter to the National Secretary of the party, Alhaji Umar Tsauri, which was signed By its Coordinator, Dr Temitope Atteh, the group warned that the party would ultimately be defeated by the APC at the polls if the three aspirants were not disqualified.

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Dr Atteh said; “There is palpable fear across the leadership and rank and file of our party that if this danger is not confronted and contained before we go into primaries, it may become intractable thereafter and could ignite series of actions and reactions that will lead to failure of our party at the polls.

“It is also lamentable that the party’s stakeholders and elders are divided, as the development is dangerous for the party,” he added.

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