By Ahmed Rufa’i, Dutse
The Jigawa state Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) gubernatorial candidate, Alhaji Mustapha Sule Lamido has picked the serving chairman of the party, Honourable Babandi Ibrahim Gumel as his running mate in the forth coming general elections in 2023.
This was contained in a press statement that was made available to National Update by the new media aid to the gubernatorial candidate, Malam Mansur Ahmed.
The statement reads in Part ‘The decision to pick Alhaji Babandi Ibrahim Gumel as running mate to the gubernatorial candidate, was arrived at after a due consultation with party stakeholders and their endorsement of his choice.
“It is very clear to everyone that choosing Honourable Babandi Ibrahim is base on merit and popularity. And all believes he matched the position and can handle all challenges related to the position”.
Malam Mansur Ahmed “Explained that “the leader of the party in the state and former governor Alhaji Sule Lamido has blessed and adopted the decision”.
According to the “Honoured Babandi Ibrahim Gumel is the current state party chairman. He was two term member Jigawa state house of Assembly, former commissioner of information”.
“Before his participating in to politics, Alhaji Babandi Ibrahim was a staff of the Triumph publishing company, the publishers of THE TRIUMPH NEWS PAPER of Kano state government.