2027: Sokoto ADC faction rejects Dan’Iya, backs Zaki Tambuwal for governorship race

A faction of the African Democratic Congress, ADC, in Sokoto State has reaffirmed Zaki Muhammad Tambuwal as its governorship candidate for the 2027 normal elections.

The factional state chairman, Umar Faruk, acknowledged this in Sokoto whereas addressing journalists on the implications of a latest Federal High Court judgment in Abuja in regards to the social gathering’s management and candidate nominations.

Faruk stated the Sokoto chapter recognised the management construction headed by Nafiu Bala, below which Tambuwal emerged because the social gathering’s governorship candidate.

He stated, “Consequently, Hon. Zaki Muhammad Tambuwal remains the duly nominated governorship candidate of the African Democratic Congress in Sokoto State.”

He maintained that the validity of social gathering candidacies must be decided by established authorized and constitutional processes quite than private pursuits or unilateral declarations.

The faction urged social gathering members and supporters to stay calm and keep away from actions or statements able to creating confusion or undermining the social gathering’s unity forward of the 2027 elections.