Labour Party (LP) in Adamawa State has disowned its governorship candidate, Umaru Mustapha, over alleged anti-party during the presidential election.
LP Chairman for the state, Christopher Nicolas, said at a news conference in Yola that Mustapha had addressed newsmen before the presidential election urging his supporters to vote for the APC.
Nicolas thanked the people of the state for their massive votes for Peter Obi.
He called on party supporters to get their PVCs ready and vote for the party’s candidates aspiring for state assembly on Match 11.
“On behalf of our president, National Chairman, we thanked our supporters for the votes given to us, we appreciate you all. We equally encourage you to vote for candidates contesting for state assembly under our great party. While for governorship we are working on it because he came out publicly and denounced our boss, and called his supporters to vote for APC which is an offence for us,” he said.
Meanwhile, North-East Zonal Coordinator for ObiDatti Presidential Campaign Council, Joseph Maigari, has criticised INEC over its inability to conduct a credible presidential election on February 25.
He said the just concluded presidential election was rigged, but called on the party supporters to remain calm.
“Most of the votes for LP was counted for other political parties, especially in Adamawa which we are not happy and we have the evidence to present,” he said.
The party’s PCC Coordinator in the state, Prof. Caleb Fili, called on supporters and other stakeholders to remain calm as the party was responding to results declared in the right path to address the issue.