Three Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) national assembly candidates in the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) have stepped down in favour of their All Progressives Congress (APC) counterparts ahead of the 2027 elections.
The PDP candidates — Gomna Stephen Gashe (Abaji/Gwagwalada/
Kwali/Kuje), Ahmed Dogara Jacob (Municipal/Bwari), and Angulu Bako (Senate) —
stepped down from the race on Monday in Abuja during a stakeholders’ meeting of
the rainbow coalition, a cross-party alliance, convened by Nyesom Wike,
minister of the FCT.
The APC candidates are Danladi Chiya (Abaji/Gwagwalada/
Kwali/Kuje), Shekwogaza Gabaya (Municipal/Bwari), and Philip Aduda, who is
seeking a Senate seat.
Speaking at the sit-down, Wike said he was willing to
concede the FCT national assembly seats to the APC because President Bola
Tinubu resides in the territory.
Wike, who described himself as the “commander of field
operations” of Tinubu’s re-election campaign in the FCT and Rivers state, said
political differences would not prevent members of the two parties from working
towards a common presidential objective.
“Ordinarily, as the national leader of the PDP, I should
have told them to allow me to take one. But because the president resides here
[FCT], he lives here. I don’t want to share anything with the president. Take
senator and the two house of representatives [seats]. But in my state [Rivers],
I will take small,” he said.
The PDP candidates subsequently took turns pledging their
loyalty to Wike and promising to work with him.
The development comes amid a disagreement between Wike and
APC governors over his rainbow coalition, which brings together politicians
from different parties to support Tinubu’s re-election.
The APC governors had said they would not endorse any
alliance or political arrangement that could undermine Tinubu’s re-election bid
or the party’s candidates in the 2027 elections.
The governors also said they would not entertain
arrangements that could “create confusion, divided loyalty or competing
interests” within the APC.
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