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The immediate past Minister of Communication and Digital Economy, Professor Isa Ali Ibrahim Pantami, has joined the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and clinched the governorship ticket of the party.

He emerged through a voice affirmation during a primary election held on Tuesday in Gombe.

He was declared as the sole aspirant by Hon. Gregory Yenlong, the Chairman of the PDP Electoral Panel.

Speaking shortly after he was declared as winner, Pantami said he contested for the seat to offer service to people of the state.

He pledged that if elected in 2027, he would govern with fairness and justice.

Pantami is now up against Jamilu Gwamna, the gubernatorial candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Gombe.

Earlier, Pantami had kicked against the process which produced Gwamna as consensus candidate of the APC.

He had opted for primaries but pulled out of the exercise on the eve of the election, alleging lack of transparency.

Days after the primaries of the APC, four gubernatorial aspirants of the PDP raised the alarm that there was an attempt to smuggle Pantami into the PDP gubernatorial race.

In a communique issued after an emergency meeting Sunday in Gombe, the aspirants; Alhaji Abdulkadir Hamma Saleh, ⁠Hon. Khamisu Ahmed Mailantarki, Hon. Usman Aliyu Garry and Mrs ⁠Monica Kaltho, said the law did not permit a candidate to defect from one political party to another and subsequently contest the same election process after votes have already been cast and counted in his favour in another party’s primaries.

The aspirants said they welcomed every well-meaning individual into the PDP, but strongly object to any attempt to involve a person who already contested primaries in another party.

But on Tuesday, PDP stakeholders chose Pantami as the right man to fly the party’s flag.

WizardOfNG:
When Moniepoint CEO said he found Nigerian employees to have a lower intelligence quotient in comparison to others they came for his head.

How is it not obvious that those who do not have the capacity to build anything, like Atiku and Obi and now Pantami, are not leaders?

Do we even understand what qualities leaders must have in Nigeria so we then uncompromisingly support those who have those qualities to help our nation reach her potentials as the biggest black nation on Earth?

Next minute Nigerians will be shouting APC this, PDP that and babour when they don't seem to understand that the way so-called leaders move up and down, like Olosho changing hotels, simply shows Nigerian political Parties have no institutional integrity and that everything is about the specific history and capacity of individuals seeking to lead.

helinues:
There is no way Pantami would have won the Apc primary as he has been against president Tinubu even before the 2023 election

All the best to him though

helinues:
All the best to him

Watch how those who trolled Pantami when he was a minister under Buhari, those who gave a bad remarks to the app he launched which kill his ideas will start praising Pantami on this thread

They have never for once be sincere with anything they do

InfoGuru118:
https://verynigerian.com/breaking-ex-minister-pantami-defects-to-pdp-from-ruling-party-emerges-gombe-guber-candidate/

Honestey:
From what I have seen, Obi remains the greatest political strength of Tinubu. He did well in 2023, I trust him to deliver more in 2027

Meteng:
I thought they said there’s a new law that you can’t move to another party to contest once you fail in your previous party. Abi na me no understand the new law?

Sensiblerealist:
One Judge don rule against that. Na all these judges dey bastardise the fabric of this country most.
By next dispensation, I am sure they will amend that stuff cuz e really affect many of them

InfoGuru118:
https://verynigerian.com/breaking-ex-minister-pantami-defects-to-pdp-from-ruling-party-emerges-gombe-guber-candidate/

LagosOrigin:
Now that he's in PDP, let's see how far he would go in the governorship election ...

helinues:
All the best to him

Watch how those who trolled Pantami when he was a minister under Buhari, those who gave a bad remarks to the app he launched which kill his ideas will start praising Pantami on this thread

They have never for once be sincere with anything they do

WizardOfNG:
Correct. Yet the greater point is that we must ask why those who say they wish to lead us do not seem to have capacity for building anything.

Compare politicians today to Awolowo, Azikiwe, Akintola, Buhari and Tinubu etal. It is a joke. Great men and great leaders build great things.

Today we have clowns who leave a Party today, join another tomorrow and have even moved to a third Party by the weekend. How does that display anything other than cynical desperation for power?

Do Nigerians even understand what qualities leaders of men, institutions, nations and processes must have? What we are doing is the equivalent of asking footballers to be Neuro surgeons.