LP Governorship Candidate Quits Race For APC’s Binani

LP Governorship Candidate Quits Race For APC’s Binani

Umar Mustapha, the Labour Party (LP) governorship candidate in Adamawa State, has announced his withdrawal from the race to support the All Progressives Congress (APC) candidate, Senator Aishatu Ahmad Binani.

A few days before the presidential election, Mustapha accused the LP of conspiring against him by abandoning its presidential candidate, Peter Obi, and urging his supporters to support the then-APC standard bearer, Bola Ahmad Tinubu.

Mustapha, also known as Otumba, told an APC stakeholders meeting on Sunday that he had finally decided to step down for Binani, with whom he shared the same passion for service to the people, in order to increase her chances.

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“I Umar Mustapha Otumba, the governorship candidate of Labour Party have withdrawn from the governorship contest to support Senator Aishatu Ahmed Binani. Both of us realise that we have the same goal and that some people are happy we are going to split our votes.

“Now we have teamed up and I am calling on my supporters, young and old, male and female to come out en mass on the 11th of March and vote for Aishatu Ahmad Binani for governorship,“ he stated.

Binani responded by praising the LP candidate’s courageous and progressive step, and she urged candidates from other political parties to learn from him.

Mustapha was defeated by Binani in the APC primary election alongside four other male aspirants before joining the LP and running for governor.