Pantami Reacts As INEC Omits His Name From Gombe Governorship Candidates

The camp of Professor Isa Ali Pantami has reacted to the omission of the previous Minister of Communications and Digital Economy and the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) from the Independent National Electoral Commission’s (INEC) remaining checklist of candidates and political events for the 2027 Gombe State governorship election.

In an announcement issued by spokesperson for the Pantamiyya Movement, Professor Suleiman Mohammed, which Professor Pantami additionally shared on his Facebook account, described the event as a brief problem.

LEADERSHIP had earlier reported that whereas the names of different governorship candidates have been included within the checklist, Pantami’s identify and his People’s Democratic Party PDP are lacking.

Professor Sulaiman urged supporters of the PDP and the Pantamiyya Movement to stay calm, hopeful and centered, insisting that the omission didn’t quantity to a remaining dedication of the previous minister’s political future.

“This is a temporary challenge and a normal part of the electoral process, not a final determination, in sha Allah,” the assertion stated.

The assertion stated Pantami’s camp was conscious of the omission of his identify regardless of his emergence from the contemporary PDP governorship major carried out on September 29, following an order by the Federal High Court in Gombe.

It added that the camp’s authorized and liaison groups have been participating related get together organs and INEC to safe what it described as compliance and rectification throughout the interval allowed by legislation.

The camp additionally alleged that some people have been working behind the scenes to frustrate what it referred to as accountable management within the state, however didn’t establish them or present proof to assist the allegation.

It maintained that the PDP and Pantamiyya Movement remained united and urged supporters to proceed their mobilisation.

Pantami received the PDP’s contemporary governorship major after the Federal High Court, in a judgment delivered on September 24, nullified his earlier emergence and ordered the get together to conduct one other major inside 30 days. The rerun adopted a authorized problem by get together aspirants over the method that produced him because the get together’s candidate.

Meanwhile, Sani Ibrahim Shawai, spokesman for the All Progressives Congress (APC) governorship candidate, Dr Jamilu Isyaku Gwamna, didn’t reply to telephone calls searching for his response as of press time. Mohammed, the Gombe State APC secretary, stated he would get again to the reporter however had but to supply a response as of press time.