Adamawa: Bindow, SDP deny adopting PDP candidate

The media team of Governor Mohammed Jibrilla Bindow of Adamawa State and the state chapter of the Social Democratic party (SDP) have dismissed claims of the adoption of the governorship candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) as the joint unity candidate for the 2019 general election.

In a reaction to the report Friday, Bindow’s spokesman, Macauley Hunohashi, said the claim that chieftains of both APC and SDP had adopted the Adamawa State candidate of the PDP, Umar Fintiri, as a unity candidate is false and malicious.

“In as much as we do not want to be drawn into the foray of mischief makers, we are however compelled to react because of the misleading undercurrent of the said story,” Hunohashi said, adding that the story was aimed at blurring the vision of incumbent governor and candidate of the party for the 2019 election, Mohammed Bindow.

In its own reaction earlier Friday morning, the Social Democratic Party (SDP) said its governorship candidate for the state, Chief Emmanuel Bello, will contest in the general election next year as the party has no intention to support the candidate of any other party.

The state chairman of the SDP, Mr John K. Muva, said, “I state emphatically that there is no truth in that claim and media report… The SDP has no plan of joining any other party in a joint campaign for the 2019 governorship election.”

He said a ‘self-appointed spokesman for a non-existent’ Coalition of Political Parties that the media report in question quoted was not known to the SDP and so could not speak for the SDP.

“At best this claim has no place in the contemplation of the SDP in Adamawa State and should be consigned to the political dustbin of the state,” he added, urging members of the party and supporters to regard the ‘fictitious and malicious’ publication as a desperate move by ‘rejected politicians and parties’ to cause confusion,” he stated.