ADP Speaks on Buhari’s In-Law Stepping Down From Kaduna Gov’ship Race

• In a new report, the ADP governorship candidate in Kaduna State, Sani Sha’aban, has not stepped down from the 2023 race
• The Action Democratic Party dismissed the rumours that Sha’aban had dropped his ambition a few days before the 2023 governorship election
• The party's leadership noted further that Sha’aban, President Muhammadu Buhari's in-law, is the preferred choice of the good people of Kaduna state

The national leadership of the Action Democratic Party has distanced itself from the report that its governorship candidate in Kaduna State, Sani Sha’aban, is stepping down for another candidate in the race.

In a new statement, the ADP argued that Sha’aban, who’s also an in-law to President Muhammadu Buhari, was the choice of the people of the state to become their next governor, The PUNCH reported.

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The statement signed by the party’s national secretary, Victor Fingesi, in Kaduna on Thursday, March 9, urged all party faithful and the good people of the state to disregard the rumour and “see it for the fake news it is.”

The party also called on eligible voters to come out en masse to vote for its candidate on election day.

Gbadebo Rhodes-Vivour: Is LP's Guber Candidate in Lagos Igbo, an IPOB Apologist? Fresh Fact Emerges

In another report, Olawale Rhodes-Vivour, the father of the governorship candidate of the Labour Party in Lagos, Gbadebo Rhodes-Vivour, has explained that his son is not Igbo as speculated. The Lagos chieftain also distanced his son from being an apologist of the proscribed Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB).

He said:

“Gbadebo has no time for IPOB. This boy is highly educated and highly driven. We can track his record every day in Lagos. He has no time for IPOB.”

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Governorship Election: Fresh plot emerges as Adamu holds meeting with APC governors

Meanwhile, Abdullahi Adamu, the national chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC), has been seen holding a meeting with governors of the party, often referred to as progressives governors.

In a tweet on Tuesday, March 7, the APC chairman met with the governors of the party ahead of the Saturday, March 11, governorship and state house of assembly election.

The meeting was held at the national secretariat of the APC, where some members of the national working committee were in attendance.

Source: Legit.ng