Barely 74 hours after the gubernatorial candidate of the Labour Party (LP) in Kaduna State, Hon. Jonathan Asake announced that he was not stepping down for anybody in the race, stakeholders of the LP in the State have said that people should vote for the Peoples Democratic candidate, (PDP) gubernatorial candidate, Isa Ashiru Kudan on Saturday in order to have a respite in the State.
According to an issued statement issued at the end of an emergency meeting signed by Ibrahim Aliyu Maigari Kaduna North Senatorial district Khamal Mohammed Sadiq, Stakeholders of our great party, the Labour Party (LP) in the three senatorial districts of Kaduna state (Kaduna-North, Kaduna-Central, and Kaduna-South senatorial districts) held an emergency meeting on Tuesday in Kaduna, where we assessed the performance of our party during the February 25, Presidential and National Assembly elections in the State.
The stakeholders further said, The meeting noted that while the LP performed impressively in Kaduna-South senatorial district and parts of Kaduna-Central senatorial district, by winning two federal constituency seats, it performed dismally in Kaduna-North senatorial district and parts of Kaduna-Central.
After extensive deliberations, the meeting, which was attended by many stakeholders from the three senatorial districts, resolved as follows: That our members should vote for the PDP, as the LP cannot win the governorship election given the reality of the political situation in the State.
That we should all join hands to kick out the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) which has deployed religion to divide the people and perpetuate itself in power. The election provides an ample opportunity for the people of Kaduna state to liberate themselves from the APC government of family and friends and its unpopular policies.
We appeal to our governorship candidate, Hon. Jonathan Asake, who refused to attend the meeting, to come to terms with the stark realities on the ground and join hands with the PDP to end the bad governance of the APC.
Many Muslims in Kaduna State have realised that the APCs promotion of the same faith ticket was introduced to promote selfish political interest and, consequently, resolved to resist the move by voting out the APC. Muslims and Christians want to live together as brothers and sisters in Kaduna state and will not allow selfish politicians to continue to use religion to divide them this time around.
We urged every LP member in Kaduna state not to waste his or her vote on Jonathan Asake; because, a vote for him is a vote for the APC, they emphasised.
The meeting congratulated members of the Labour party for massively turning up to vote.
