Gombe PDP aspirants oppose Pantami’s alleged entry into governorship race

Four governorship aspirants of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) successful Gombe State person rejected an alleged determination to bring erstwhile Minister of Communications and Digital Economy, Isa Ali Ibrahim Pantami, into the party’s governorship superior contention up of the 2027 elections.

The aspirants, Alhaji Abdulkadir Hamma Saleh, Hon. Khamisu Ahmed Mailantarki, Hon. Usman Aliyu Garry and Mrs. Monica Kaltho, made their presumption known successful a communiqué issued aft an exigency gathering held connected Sunday successful Gombe.

They alleged that determination were plans to “smuggle” Pantami into the PDP aft helium had already participated successful the governorship primaries of the ruling All Progressives Congress,APC, connected May 21, 2026.

According to the communiqué, the aspirants argued that the Electoral Act and antiauthoritarian principles bash not licence an aspirant to defect from 1 governmental enactment to different and inactive enactment successful the aforesaid electoral process aft already contesting and securing votes successful different party’s primaries.

“Following the rumoured effort by an aspirant, Prof. Isa Ali Pantami, who participated successful the precocious concluded governorship primaries of the APC, to defect to the PDP with the sole purpose of contesting successful our party’s governorship primaries, we deem it indispensable to marque our presumption known,” the communiqué stated.

The aspirants said they “condemn successful the strongest terms” immoderate alleged effort to let Pantami to partic...