Yahaya Idris, Lafia
A renowned businessman Hon. Abubakar Salihu Okito and an aspirant of the All Progressives Congress (APC) on Saturday collected the nomination form for the 2019 assembly election.
The aspirant, who paid the nomination fees, collected the form at the party secretariat in Lafia through the party officials.
Hon. Okito, the aspirant who collected the form said he join the race because he want total change for his people.
"We are here to collect the form and it is due to the fact that people of my constituent believe in my ability to deliver when I becomes member from Toto LGA", he said there was no other person that could wrestle the position from the incumbent, Hon. Saidu Galadima Shafa, other than Salihu Abubakar Okito.
Okito who was accompanied by his committee of friends and one his team said that the group believed the aspirant could represent the yearnings of the people of Toto/Gadabuke and the state in general.
" I want to urge APC members in Toto / Gadabuke districts to work hard to see Hon. Salihu Abubakar Okito is elected as assembly member in 2019" he said.
Responding, on behalf of the APC, an official of the APC, confirmed that the aspirant had fulfilled the necessary condition for the collection of form.
The party also said it had no anointed candidate.
"We are going to allow a level playing ground".
The number of aspirants who picked the form on the platform of the party has now increased to reasonable number.
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