2023 Elections: 45 Special Advisers to APC Governor Defect, Pick between Atiku, Obi
- The PDP has received about 45 senior special assistants to the Zamfara state governor, Bello Matawalle
- The former aides who are now backing the PDP's presidential candidate, Atiku Abubakar, resigned from their offices recently
- An aide to Atiku's running mate, Governor Ifeanyi Okowa, Udoka Emmanuel, said the defectors are also supporting the PDP's gubernatorial candidate in Zamfara, Dr. Lawal Dauda
No fewer than 45 special advisers to Governor Bello Matawalle have resigned their appointments ahead of the 2023 general elections.
It was gathered that the former appointees have defected to the Peoples Democratic Party in a bid to deliver Zamfara state for the party's governorship and presidential candidates, Dr. Lawal Dauda and H.E Alhaji Atiku Abubakar.
Source: Twitter
The development was disclosed by Udoka Emmanuel, the senior special assistant to the PDP's vice presidential candidate, Governor Dr. Ifeanyi Okowa.
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However, Legit.ng is yet to confirm the authenticity of the claim by Okowa's aide.
2023 elections: Forgery of particulars? Stakeholder drags Zamfara PDP guber candidate Dauda Lawal to court
The Zamfara Youth Progressive Union, a socio-political group in the state, had raised some suspicions concerning the authenticity of the document submitted to the Independent National Electoral Commission by the governorship candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Dauda Lawal.
According to a statement made available to Legit.ng, the group said it appears that more questions need to be cleared by Lawal in the forthcoming 2023 election over documents he submitted to the commission as statements of his qualifications to contest for office.
The union is insisting that the details contained in those documents are not only contradictory in nature but very confusing hence there is no certainty in both Lawal's original name and the year he was born, among many other complex adoptions that need to be cleared.
It stated that many people know the PDP gubernatorial candidate to be Dauda Lawal Dare, but in the documents he submitted to INEC, there are some signs of alterations which raised serious dust about the credibility of the documents he filed before the electoral umpire as his requisite qualifications.
Source: Legit.ng
