Politics

Aminu Tambuwal is Sokoto PDP gov candidate –INEC

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6 years ago

November 18, 2018

The Independent National Electoral Commission has said that the incumbent Sokoto State Governor , Aminu Tambuwal , is the governorship candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party in the 2019 elections.
Tambuwal finished second behind Atiku Abubakar, who emerged the party presidential candidate at its Convention held in Port -Harcourt , Rivers State on October 6 .

INEC confirmed the substitution of the name of Manir Dan ’ Iya , earlier submitted as the party flag bearer, with the name of Tambuwal over the weekend .

Political observers had suspected that Dan ’ Iya , who was Tambuwal ’ s Commissioner for Local Government Affairs , had only held the PDP governorship ticket for Tambuwal in case he ( Tambuwal ) lost the party’ s presidential ticket.

Dan ’ Iya had emerged as PDP consensus candidate .

INEC ’ s National Commissioner and Chairman , Information and Voter Education , Festus Okoye , who confirmed this in Abuja , stated that , Manir Dan ’ Iya , by this substitution , is now the deputy governorship candidate of the party for Sokoto State.

A party source hinted our correspondent that the substitution exercise was secretly carried out in the state on Friday by party officials , after all necessary procedures was done and thereafter , forwarded the name to the INEC headquarters in Abuja .