The Social Democratic Party (SDP) national secretariat has announced that it will continue to support its governorship candidate in Nasarawa State, Hon. Mohammed Alfa Mustapha.
Two days before the March 18 governorship and state house of assembly elections in Nasarawa State, reports from the state chairman of the SDP claimed that Alfa Mustapha had been suspended from the party. As a result, he was ineligible to run for governor under the platform.
However, the party’s national secretary, Dr. Olu Ogunloye, stated that the governorship candidate had not been suspended by the party’s State Working Committee (SWC).
He claimed, however, that neither the state chairman nor the SWC had the authority to expel the governorship candidate from the party or revoke his permission to run for office on the party’s platform.
He said;
It is a huge misinformation and grievous untruth for the Nasarawa State Chairman or anyone to say that he has been ‘instructed from above’ to carry out the illegality of attempting to suspend or expel our governorship candidate, Hon Mohammed Alfa Mustapha from the party two days to the election. This is not only false, but it is also malicious. Neither the national chairman nor the NWC has authorized the state chairman or his SWC to disown or suspend the governorship candidate.
The moves and maneuvers of the state chairman have been countermanded effectively by the leadership of the party.
I can authoritatively say, on behalf of the national chairman and the National Working Committee, that the Social Democratic Party and all its structures are firmly behind Hon Mohammed Alfa Mustapha and all SDP candidates in Nasarawa State.
We urge all our members and the public to vote SDP all the way on Saturday, 18th March 2023.
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