APC issues nomination forms, warns PDP against ‘funny games’ in Adamawa LG Polls

The Adamawa State chapter of the All Progressives Congress (APC) has begun distributing nomination forms to all APC members who want to run in the state’s upcoming local government elections.

The Adamawa State Independent Electoral Commission (ADSIEC) has set the date for the election of chairmen and councillors for the state’s 21 local government areas on April 9 this year.

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The APC has provided aspiring members with the necessary nomination forms, the party said on Wednesday, following the release earlier of the full election timetable by ADSIEC.

Chairman of the committee handling the intra-APC nomination exercise, Alhaji Mustapha Atiku Ribadu, who is also the State Organizing Secretary of the party, disclosed this to newsmen in Yola, saying the party was out to stop the ruling Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in the state from appropriating the councils to itself.

“Our party has gone out to sensitize our people in the grassroots on the need for us to come out and participate in the election,” Mustapha Ribadu said, declaring that APC would not condone acts of rigging.

He added, “If the ruling party tries anything funny, we will match them with whatever they come with before, during and after the election.”

Ribadu said all APC members with nomination forms will be treated fairly and all those who emerge eventually as candidates in different LGAs will be encouraged to participate and win in the April 9 election.

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He announced that the APC agreed to give a 50 per cent waiver for women and people with physical challenges.