By Agabus Pwanagba
With barely two days to the Jos North/Bassa Federal Constituency bye-election in Plateau State the People’s Redemption Party (PRP) says it doesn’t have a candidate to contest for the by-election slated for Saturday 26th February, 2022.
However, investigation revealed that the PRP has been embroiled in an internal crisis in the State which has seen the party being led by two factions.
A National representative of PRP, Auwal Sani accompanied by the State Chairman of the Party Alhaji Yusuf Sani Umar, while speaking with journalists at the State office of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) Jos.
“We are here today to find out the outcome of the petition that we submitted sometimes on the so called faction of the PRP in Plateau State, and we want to make it clear and emphasised that there is only one PRP Leader at the National Level who is Comrade Adulmajid Yakubu Daudu and the Plateau State Chairman Yusuf Sani Umar”
According to him, the party has not presented any candidate for the bye-election because their focus is to reorganise the party ahead of 2023 elections.
“If a so called faction has presented a candidate we are not aware because we are the original PRP and that is why we had submitted a petition to INEC long before now to look into it, and we are waiting for them act on the petition immediately”.
Also Speaking the State Chairman of PRP in the State Alhaji Yusuf Sani Umar said anybody parading himself as PRP chairman other than him is a fraud.
“We are not after bye-election, but the task ahead of us which is restructuring the part for 2023, as far as we are concerned we are not participating in the by-election on Saturday, 26th February, 2022 and we don’t have a candidate”.
It was gathered that there had been rumours making rounds that some aggrieved members of the ruling APC in the state who were not please with the primary election of their party’s flagbearer had picked a ticket in the aforementioned party (PRP).
