Sunday Adam Jos
The governorship campaign team of Dr. Patrick Dakum commends the doggedness and resilience of its countless supporters who did not yield to the discouragement strategy of the propaganda ministers of falsehood of the Plateau State chapter of the All Progressives Congress, APC, who are bent on causing confusion in the Labour Party by insisting that the former Governorship candidate of the party, Yohana Margif who resigned and was replaced with Dr. Patrick Dakum, remains the authentic one. Your stance on social media, calls, visitation and text messages to the governorship candidate have proven your commitment and determination for a better and excellent change of governance on the Plateau, and by the grace of God it would come to fruition.
To put the records straight, Margif was already replaced by Dr. Dakum by virtue of the governorship primary held on August 5, 2022 under the supervision of the Independent Electoral Commission, INEC, where the latter emerged victorious. It would be recalled that the Labour Party in a letter to INEC dated 2nd August, 2022 signed by its National Chairman Barrister Julius Abure and the National Secretary, Alhaji Umar Farouk Ibrahim, notified the electoral body of the resignation of the governorship candidates of seven states including Plateau, for fresh primaries to be held which were later on done on August 5, 2022.
We will like our teeming supporters to know that the Labour Party recognizes Dr. Dakum as the Governorship candidate of Plateau State and his name is already uploaded on INEC’s list of Governorship candidates of Nigeria.
There is no court of law that restrained Dakum from parading himself as the Governorship candidate.
Yohana Margif is the complainant who dragged Labour Party, Independent Electoral Commission, INEC, and Dr. Dakum to court seeking interlocutory injunction restraining them from substituting him but the court refused to grant the request based on a withdrawal letter from him that is in circulation.
Margif is the erstwhile candidate who now wants the court to restore him as the governorship candidate despite his resignation and subsequent expulsion from the party.
Since the case is in court and it is yet to pass its verdict, the status quo remains unchanged. Dr. Dakum is the candidate recognized by INEC and the Labour Party.
Please count the growling noise of the APC propaganda machines as wailing of retreating soldiers in a defeated battle.
They are not the Labour Party and cannot decide for it. They are not INEC to tell Nigerians who the Labour Party governorship candidate is, and they are not the High Court to pass the verdict disqualifying Dr. Patrick Dakum. They are mere lazy bones and busy bodies who are bankrupt of political ideas and lacking the capacity to live up like men to face fierce political challenge, but seeking simple rivers to cross. Chief Obafemi Awolowo said, “Strong, courageous, resourceful and self confident people are never afraid of rivals or competitors.”
The APC’s insistence on Margif as the authentic Labour Party governorship candidate is a total show of cowardice seeking for easy ways to win the 2023 governorship election because their candidate is no match for Dr. Patrick Dakum.
The APC has already accepted defeat by the propaganda insisting on Margif we should therefore celebrate, accelerate and intensify our support for Dr. Patrick Dakum with courage and confidence.
Shabul Mazadu
Media Consultant
Dr. Patrick Dakum Campaign Team
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