The Kano State chapter of the Labour Party has rubbished claims that Bashir Ishak-Bashir, who defected to the All Progressives Congress (APC), was its governorship candidate, stressing that he was not.
Recall that Ishak-Bashir had on Monday told newsmen that he had commenced talks with the All Progressives Congress (APC) to support it in the forthcoming elections.
‘I am in high-level discussion with the leadership of the APC at the national level on how we can support the party to win the forthcoming general elections.
‘I will soon get across to you our final position on the matter,’ Ishak-Bashir told reporters.
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The LP Chairman in the state, Alhaji Mohammed Raji, however, dismissed Ishak Bashir’s claims, saying he was never the LP governorship candidate.
Raji said at a news conference on Monday in Kano that Ishak Bashir’s name has never been on the Independent National Electoral Commission portal as LP’s governorship standard bearer in Kano State.
‘He came to the party alone and left alone,’ Raji said, adding that the structure of the party remained intact with all its Senatorial, House of Representatives, and State Assembly candidates contesting in the forthcoming general elections.
He, however, acknowledged that there were issues in the party which had ’caused disunity within the rank and file of members of the party.’
Raji added that ‘some wrong elements’ had tried to divert the attention of the party and threatened to defect.
‘We are strongly advising such category of people to know that we the ‘Obedients’ are fully in support of Obi-Dati movement hundred per cent in Kano state,’ he added.
Meanwhile, a source in the party told Africa Today News, New York that Raji’s name has been forwarded to INEC as the LP gubernatorial candidate in Kano State.