Kogi 2023: APC female aspirant seeks extension of interest form collection

Hajiya Hadiza Ibrahim, a female governorship aspirant on Monday urged the national leadership of APC to extend the collection of forms to enable her participate in the party’s governorship primaries.

“This my call becomes imperative in view of the recent withdrawal from the governorship race by my political leader and mentor, Alhaji James Faleke,” Ibrahim explained during a news conference in Lokoja.

she declared that: “All I want by the leadership of our great All Progressives Congress (APC) is to open up the window for me as a lone female aspirant by extending the date for the purchase of the interest form.

“I had earlier stepped down and relaxed for Faleke but now that I know he’s no more in the race, I am strongly interested.

“The APC party leadership should please consider my desire to lead my people in Kogi and give me the ample opportunity to do so at this critical period.

“‘l wish to state emphatically that the reason why I did not obtain the Expression of Interest form for the APC Governorship primary election coming up on April 10 was born out of the respect I have for Faleke.

“I am shocked beyond measure over the sudden withdrawal of Faleke from the governorship race in the state.”

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The APC female aspirant, expressed disappointment, explaining that she had earlier jettisoned her ambition for the governorship race by stepping aside for Faleke, whom she described as her “political mentor”.

”The perturbing part of it all is that I only got to know that Faleke has withdrawn from the race this Monday morning, which is quite embarrassing to me because he should have let us know a week before now.

”I took the strong decision to have stepped down for Faleke being my mentor that I look upto because we have been working together for a very long time,” she said.

Ibrahim explained that she has been in the race for the esteemed seat of governor of Kogi since 2015 and participated in primaries twice.

According to her, the ambition is born out of the genuine desire to provide a people-oriented leadership that will ensure the provision of the needed gains of democracy to our people in line with their wishes and aspirations.

”I have no cause not to be in the race because I have all it takes to contest the governorship election,” she restated.

Ibrahim therefore urged the national leadership of APC to extend the collection of forms to enable her participate in the party’s governorship primaries.

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