APC Convention: I’m Still In The Race For Re-election, Says Women Leader

The National Women Leader of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Dr. Ramatu Tijiany Aliyu, has described as lies the report that she had withdrawn the race to seek re-election in the National Convention of the party scheduled for today.

According to her, the news items was a crude demonstration of the garage politics and dirty propaganda being deployed by her opponent and sponsors in attempt to deceive APC delegates.

Aliyu in a statement urged APC delegates and party faithfuls to disregard and ignore any such news and plots to deceive them into voting for the wrong candidate.

She said, “I have received with shock and displeasure the just published fabrication in a mushroom blog named Authority newspaper that I, Dr. Ramatu Tijjani Aliyu, the incumbent National women leader of the APC and a widely endorsed candidate for the National Women leadership of our great party in today’s Convention has withdrawn from the race.

“This development is not just unfortunate but a crude demonstration of the garage politics and dirty propaganda being deployed by my Opponent and her sponsors in attempt to deceive our delegates. To think that someone seeking to become a National Women leader of our great party the APC can descend so low is not only bad for the APC but also dangerous for our nascent democracy.

“I hereby clearly and unequivocally reassert that I Dr. Ramatu Tijjani Aliyu is still firmly in the running to retain my office as the National Women leader of the APC and to build on the good work we have started together. I therefore urge our delegates and party faithfuls to disregard and ignore any such news and plots to deceive you into voting for the wrong candidate.”