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) closing record of candidates and political events for the 2027 Gombe State governorship election.

In a press release issued by spokesperson for the Pantamiyya Movement, Professor Suleiman Mohammed, which Professor Pantami additionally shared on his Facebook account, described the event as a short lived problem.

LEADERSHIP had earlier reported that whereas the names of different governorship candidates have been included within the record, 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 targeted, insisting that the omission didn’t quantity to a closing willpower 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 mentioned.

The assertion mentioned Pantami’s camp was conscious of the omission of his identify regardless of his emergence from the recent PDP governorship main performed 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 partaking related occasion organs and INEC to safe what it described as compliance and rectification inside the interval allowed by regulation.

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

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