FCT polls: ACN candidates back CPC in Bwari

by Adam Umar

Ahead of the March 16 Area Council elections in the FCT, seven of the ten Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN) wards chairmen in Bwari Area Council have resolved to support the candidature of Musa Dikko of the Congress for Progressive Change (CPC) at a meeting held at the council.

The ward chairmen include Michael Osadebe, Bhyazin, Onah Roggers, Kubwa Central, Sani Musa Usuma, Moses Obaje, Bwari Central, Joseph Kuduru, Kuduru, Friday Ughegbe, Ushafa and Sahabi Ibo, Igun.

The meeting also deliberated on issues including setting up a committee that would harmonize the councillorship candidates of the two parties in the election, where some candidates would be asked to step down for the most popular and credible ones in the two parties.

Announcing the committee members, CPC party chairman in Bwari Mallam Uthman Muhammad Odu, said five members were selected from each of the two parties.

In his remark ACN chairman in council, Mr Michael Atobe Obiji, who acknowledged the resistance of the ACN candidate Yahaya Isa to still contest said Isa no longer has the backing of the party, adding that ACN as party is empowered by the Constitution to decide who to stand for the party as candidate, and that it has resolve to support the CPC candidate.

It would be recalled that the Bwari alliance is coming on the heels of similar arrangement at Abuja Municipal Area Council, where the two parties, resolved to support an ACN candidate Ishaku Tanko Yamawo for the election.

DailyTrust