The Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, and All Progressives Congress, APC, are engaged in a supremacy battle as the by-election for Ganye constituency in the Adamawa State House of Assembly progresses.
PDP and APC are the only parties presenting candidates for the election which became necessary after the state lawmaker representing the constituency died last year.
The late lawmaker, Abdulmalik Jauro was of the APC and the deputy minority leader of the state House of Assembly before he died on May 24, 2024.
While the PDP is claiming that Ganye is its stronghold, the APC is insisting that producing the Assembly member from the constituency in 2023 and until the seat became vacant upon the death of their member in 2024 is sign that Ganye belongs to the APC.
The state PDP chairman, Ahmed Shehu, in an interaction with newsmen at a polling centre on Saturday, dismissed insinuation that Ganye is an APC constituency.
Ahmed Shehu who incidentally hails from Ganye, said that the APC had towards this by-election been distributing fertilizer and other items to the people because they resorted to vote buying after realising that they are on the losing side.
“We have told our people to accept whatever APC is giving them but to make the right choice,” the PDP chairman said.
A stalwart of the APC and ardent supporter of President Ahmed Tinubu, Dahiru Hammandikko who is in Ganye as a member of a national APC committee monitoring the Ganye by-election, dismissed allegations of vote buying.
“We hear of such thing all the time there is an election,” Hammandikko said, asserting that no APC person is buying any vote.
“This place is APC and we are winning. We won it the last time,” Hammandikko asserted.
Adamawa: PDP, APC in supremacy battle over Ganye by-election
