While we do not want to join issues with the PDP and APC in Nasarawa State, who have now formed an unholy alliance in the smear campaign against Mr. Maku, it behooves on APGA to clarify the issue and put the records straight.
After watching how Mr. Maku was schemed out of the PDP primaries in December 2014, APGA approached him with the governorship ticket, which he accepted and thereafter defected to APGA.
In line with the party guidelines, Mr. Maku was granted a waiver to contest on the platform of APGA which entailed back-dating his membership of the party by one year.
Based on the waiver granted Mr. Maku by the national leadership of APGA, the party filled his INEC nomination forms with the date that was shifted back to accommodate the waiver.
Even though the waiver was an internal affairs of APGA and accepted by INEC, out of desperation and trepidation, the opposition parties have gone to town spreading lies to misinform the public.
We were reliably informed that some officials of APC and PDP in Nasarawa State, who stumbled on the INEC nomination form of Mr. Maku, have been openly soliciting for the services of journalists to publish it – all in their bid to sustain the campaign of calumny against our candidate. We learned that the APC-leaning reporter of Leadership Newspaper in Nasarawa State was summoned to the Government House in Lafia where he was instructed to publish the slander against Mr Maku.
We therefore urge our teeming supporters to disregard the ill-motivated report as one of the spins employed by the opposition to discredit the reputation and high profile of Mr. Maku ahead of the election.
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Emmanuel Yaro
Secretary APGA
Nasarawa State
