Count me out of ADC, PDP alliance – Katsina’s only female candidate

against the ruling PDP in the 2019 governorship election despite the incumbent factor. He trounced the incumbent governor, Seriake and Diri at the election in 2019, but the Supreme Court nullified the election after voiding the candidacy of his deputy governorship candidate, Sen. Biobarakuma Degi- Eriemienyo, against whom a case of forgery was established, going by the documents he presented to INEC.

“If David LYON had a winning formula in 2019, it is wise and reasonable to expect him to have the same in 2023. He has even asked the party for the right of first refusal for the governorship ticket.”

New Enugu: Edeoga, LP best option – Obi-Datti coalition vows

By Christiana Ekpa

Members of the Enugu Obidatti Coalition, on Thursday, restated their support for the Labour Party governorship candidate in Enugu State, Hon. Chijioke Edeoga.

The coalition, made up of different Obidient Movement groups in Enugu State, said the decision was taken after a careful study of Edeoga’s plan for the people of Enugu State.

At a press conference addressed by the leaders of the various groups, they noted that a New Enugu was possible with Edeoga as Governor.

Those at the media briefing inclued Dr. Chima Emmanuel Edoga, Lead Convener and Comrade Wilfred Okeke, Secretary, Arc. Eric Eyutchae, and Hon. John Chidi Uzoigwe, coconveners.

They knocked some groups for attempting to impersonate the Obidient Movement in Enugu State, noting that “we have no faction whatsoever; we were the people that pioneered the one million-man march for Peter Obi, the PVC sensitization, among other movements for Obi-Datti in Enugu state.

By Musa Baba Adamu

Hajiya Hauwa Lawal Jibrin, the House of Assembly candidate for Katsina Local Government under the African Democratic Congress (ADC) has denied withdrawing from the race.

She also denied joining the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) nor declaring support for its governorship candidate, Sen. Yakubu Lado and other candidates of the party as acclaimed by some ADC members led by the party’s governorship candidate, Ibrahim Trader.

Jibrin, who is the only female candidate for the 2023 elections in Katsina State denied the allegation at a press conference held on Thursday in Katsina.

She said “I want to state it emphatically that I, Hon. Hauwa Lawal Jibrin, the ADC House of Assembly candidate for Katsina

Local Government, is not a party to the unholy alliance and I want my supporters and the electorate to know that I am still in the race.”

Describing the development as sad and shameful, she noted that she is not a transactional politician but one with the sole aim of championing the cause of the downtrodden, women and youths in the society.

“This trend is what I seek to reverse if I am elected as a member of the State House of Assembly on Saturday, March 18th,” she said.

She appealed to her teeming supporters, women and youths as well as all lovers of good governance across the state to vote for Dr Dikko Radda whom she described as the best among the governorship candidates.

“I urge all registered voters who are lovers of progress and development in Katsina Local Government to troop out on

Saturday, March 18th, and cast their votes for my candidature on the platform of ADC for peopleoriented representation in the Assembly.

“Similarly, since the ADC gubernatorial candidate has abandoned his mandate to join PDP and having studied and examined all the gubernatorial candidates, it is important to point out that APC’s gubernatorial candidate, Dr Dikko Umar Radda possesses a better prerequisite for good governance despite the fact that I have not met him before,” she stated.

The governorship candidate of the ADC, Ibrahim Trader, had on Wednesday claimed that he has directed the party to collapse its structure and support the governorship candidate of the PDP, Sen. Yakubu Lado Danmarke as well as other PDP candidates in the March 18 elections.

“So, any person coming to lay claim to Obidient Movement in Enugu is an impostor. In any case, they said they are Obedients, which is a corruption of our right name: ‘Obidients.’

They observed that Enugu had in recent times yearned for a rebirth.

“The years of governance of the state by the People’s Democratic Party, PDP, has left bitter tastes in the mouths of many state residents/dwellers.

“The ruling party conducted Gubernatorial primaries which were described by many, as transactional, offered to the highest bidder, or to those who the establishment supported.

“Hon. Barr. Chijioke Edeoga was part of that infamous PDP gubernatorial primaries, but apparently could not withstand the power and money play.

“While still recovering from PDP primaries saga, Barr. Chijioke Edeoga put it on record that he received a call, from Mr. Peter Obi, to consider running for Governorship position under the Labour Party.

“After some weeks of reluctance, he accepted and emerged as the gubernatorial candidate of the Labour Party. His emergence was not without legal tussles that reached the Supreme Court.”