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Crisis Rocks APC: 5 Aspirants Call for Dismissal of Ismaila Numan from Senatorial Race

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Daily Rendezvous - They Are Angry Losers, I Did Not Break Any Electoral Laws-Ismaila Numan Scandal looms in Adamawa APC as six senatorial hopefuls gunning for the Southern Adamawa senatorial seat lock horns over the conduct of primary. Five of the aspirants have unanimously petitioned the Senate Appeal Committee of the party against one of the aspirants, Adamu Ismaila, demanding for his outright disqualification over alleged vote buying and breach of electoral guidelines. The five aspirants claimed that Adamu was nabbed buying votes and that he has mischievously manipulated the primary process with some members of the electoral panel to declare him winner in a contest that never held and where all the five other aspirants did not participate in. They made this known at a press conference in Yola, Adamawa state. The five aspirants, Bala Sanga, Bridget Zidon, Grace Bent, Sani Jada, Ahmad Abubakar contended that, they had earlier informed the electoral committee that the time ...

Set Back for PDP, As Sen. Grace Bent Dumps PDP Board Membership for APC

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Daily Rendezvous Four APC govs storm Yola as PDP BoT member defects to APC Yola, the capital of Adamawa State was agog as three serving All Progressives Congress (APC) governors stormed the city to formally receive Sen. Grace Jackson Bent, a member of Board of Trustees (BoT) of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) who defected to the ruling party. Yahaya Bello of Kogi State represented by his deputy, Lawrence Onoja, Gov. Abubakar Badaru of Jigawa State, Gov. Simon Lalong of Plateau State, and Mai Mala Buni of Yobe state, made a huge statement by storming Yola to celebrate the capture of the former Ruling party's board member, Grace Bent. In an elaborate ceremony attended by many party bigwigs within and outside Adamawa State, the National Chairman Caretaker Extraordinary Convention Committee (CCECC), Mai Mala-Buni, welcomed the new entrant saying that her decision to join the ruling party at this critical time was apt. Mala-Buni who was represented by former s...