2023 Election: Eight Guber Candidates Endorse Yahaya's Re-Election Bid

Ahead of the 2023 governorship election, eight gubernatorial candidates in Gombe State have endorsed governor Muhammadu Inuwa Yahaya's re-election bid. 

This was a major boost to the governor's political stand to deliver victory for him.

The candidates pledged their support and allegiance towards his success in the forthcoming election.

This was disclosed to Newsmen in Gombe by the State Chairman of the Inter-Party Advisory Council (IPAC), who is also the gubernatorial candidate of Zenith Labour Party, Muhammad Gana Aliyu, on Monday. 

He explained that the endorsement was made after a long and careful deliberation on the achievements of the present government under the leadership of Governor Yahaya.

"We arrived at this logical decision after carefully assessing Governor Inuwa's general performance, especially in the areas of peace, security, education, health, infrastructure and humanitarian services across the state."

As contained in a statement by Ismaila Uba Misilli, spokesperson to governor Yahaya, the IPAC Chairman explained that the gubernatorial candidates who unanimously endorsed the state governor and the APC Candidate are: "Muhammad Gana Aliyu of Zenith Labour Party (ZLP), Sulaiman Abubakar Sunusi of National Rescue Movement (NRM), Sadiq Abdulhamid of Boot Party (BP) and Adamu Muhammad of Action Peoples Party (APP).

"Others are Sulaiman Jibrin of Action Democratic Party (ADP), Adamu Aliyu Ɗanmakka of African Action Congress (AAC), Kelmi Jacob Lazarus of Social Democratic Party (SDP) and Muhammad Bello Abubakar of Allied Peoples Party (APP)."

The candidates called on their supporters to come out in their numbers to vote for the governor so that he would continue the good works he started. 

"The eight gubernatorial candidates who willfully granted their endorsement to the governor are among the 13 candidates who signed the peace accord organised by the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC Gombe State in collaboration with Inter-Agency Consultative Committee on Election Security, ICCES on February, 15th this year."