Having lost the ticket of his party, the immediate past
Minister of Information, Labaran Maku, is scheming to
manoeuvre his way to become the governorship candidate
of the Labour Party in Nasarawa, PREMIUM TIMES has
learnt.
Mr. Maku’s bid to become Nasarawa governor on the
platform of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, was dashed
when he lost the party’s primaries to Yusuf Agabi, who
polled 214 votes to the ex-minister’s 160. Mr. Maku has
since rejected the result of the primary alleging
irregularities.
However, rather than remain within his party to either
support the winner or challenge the primary in court, Mr.
Maku is working with some leaders of the Labour Party to
become the party’s candidate. A major hindrance to the ex-
minister’s plans, however, is the firm stance of Innocent
Lagi to retain his candidacy of the Labour Party.
Mr. Lagi was elected unopposed at the Labour Party
primary held in Akwanga on December 10.
PREMIUMN TIMES learnt that since Mr. Maku realised the
PDP would not revert the result of the primaries, he has
been holding series of meeting with Labour Party leaders
including Mr. Lagi to replace the latter.
The Labour Party candidate confirmed that he had held
two meetings with Mr. Maku.
“I had two meetings with Maku wanting to know what was
happening,” Mr. Lagi told PREMIUM TIMES. “I made it
clear to him and showed him certified true copies of my
certificate as the candidate of the party because the party
didn’t tell him that primaries were already conducted”.
The candidate said he was not going to let go of his
mandate, and was going to take his party and Mr. Maku to
court for trying to steal his mandate.
“It is true I am taking Labaran Maku and the Labour Party
to court,” he said.”Because after the primaries, the Labour
Party is trying to sell a mandate of the people of the party
from Nasarawa State.”
Mr. Lagi said the Labour Party leaders have refused to give
him “the INEC (governorship) forms on the grounds that
they want to substitute me.”
He said he was currently “taking proactive moves before
the matter is sabotaged beyond repairs.”
“The party had already concluded primaries and I was
returned unopposed as the candidate for the Labour Party
in a valid primaries conducted on the 10th and monitored
by INEC and the report submitted to INEC,” he said.
When contacted, the INEC official in charge of monitoring
party primaries in Nasarawa, Fidelis Usar, confirmed that
the commission monitored the primaries and Mr. Lagi was
the candidate of the party.
The Labour Party Chairman in Nasarawa, Aisha Adamu,
declined to comment when contacted saying she would
only speak to PREMIUM TIMES on Monday in her office, by
which time party officials believe Mr. Maku would have
been used to substitute Mr. Lagi.
Efforts to get Mr. Maku to comment were unsuccessful as
he did not pick or return calls to his phone. The ex-
minister’s campaign secretary, Kasimu Bakyano, promised
to call back but was yet to several hours after as at the
time of publishing.
However, by seeking to join the Labour Party and
becoming its candidate, Mr. Maku also appears to be
jettisoning the plea of his former boss, Goodluck Jonathan,
who appealed to primary losers like Mr. Maku not to dump
the party.
“I know other parties are wooing some of you to contest
elections on their platforms, but if you believe in
democracy then you will contribute to strengthen it,” Mr.
Jonathan said at a PDP fund raising dinner in Abuja on
Saturday night. “If out of anger or frustration, you leave
the party because you didn’t get what you wanted, then
you are not contributing to the growth of democracy.”


http://www.premiumtimesng.com/news/top-news/173617-humbled-pdp-labaran-maku-plots-snatch-labour-party-ticket.html

Ok

it is well.

Waiting to hear d pdp loyalist lamblast hs now "former party"pdp and gej.
No permanet party bt permanet interest
D garrulous maku.

aftr evritin dix mumu man did for pdp..naso drm take pay am bk...hahahahahahaha...God don catch am

kestolove95:
aftr evritin dix mumu man did for pdp..naso drm take pay am bk...hahahahahahaha...God don catch am

na today?

Thieves

If this were Amaechi they would say 'used' and 'dumped'.

From Koro, To Maku.. You all are getting served! Ntoi!

It remains that Oloribuku somebody called Jelili Adesiyan.

They are all birds of the same feathers.