Barely 48 hours the presidential and National Assembly elections, the re- election bid of Governor Bindow Umaru Jibrilla may have suffered some setback in Adamawa as 10 political parties and their gubernatorial candidates who had initially endorsed him have withdrawn their support.
This is sequel to the decision of a Federal High Court in Abuja that fixed March 1st to deliver judgement in the case of alleged certificate forgery instituted against the governor.
The petitioner had prayed the court to disqualify the governor from participating in the election.
The spokesman of the parties, Dr Simon Bawa, who is the gubernatorial candidate of YPP, said the initial announcement of their withdrawal from the race and endorsement of Bindow made during the flagging off of his campaign made by the APC national chairman Adams Oshiomhole should be discarded.
According to him, they only attended the flagg off based on invitation by the governor to New Generation Governorship Forum (NGGCF) of which he is also a member but said to their shocked it was announced at the event that they had collapsed their parties structures to support the governor’s second term bid.
Further, he explained that after the flag off they asked the governor to retract the pronouncement but he urged them to work with him and APC assuring that their concern for a viable economic plan for the state, need to revamp the education sector, payment of pension, leave grant, among others would be addressed.
He said the governor’s actions subsequently do not give any hope that these issues would be addressed hence their decision to withdraw their supports and endorsement.
Some of the 10 parties are the Zenith Labour Party (ZLP), Young Progressive Party (YPP), National Conscience Party (NCP), Accord Party, MPN, PPA, CAP, ANP and JMPP.
