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<\/p>\nMr. Moses Damisa, UPC Chairman in Kogi, had told newsmen on Friday that Abuh had stepped down for Gov Bello, adding that the party\u2019s structure had been collapsed into Bello\u2019s structures, NAN reports.<\/p>\n
Damisa urged UPC supporters to vote for Bello, hinging his stance on allegations that Abuh was \u201cnot carrying the party along in his campaigns ahead of the election.\u201d<\/p>\n
But Abuh, in a statement he personally signed and made available to newsmen in Lokoja, said that the purported collapse of UPC structure into the APC was \u201ca figment of Damisa\u2019s imagination.\u201d<\/p>\n
He described the said press conference as illegal, saying that the chairman\u2019s declaration was solely his personal opinion.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe chairman is on his own; the national and state leadership, as well as members of the party, are not aware of his claims.<\/p>\n
\u201cI remain the standard bearer of UPC; all my documents and approvals are intact with the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC).<\/p>\n
\u201cUPC members should disregard Damisa\u2019s statement. We are in the race and shall, by the grace of God win the election.<\/p>\n
\u201cInasmuch as I will not like to join issues with Damisa, I want the world to know that the evolution and emergence of UPC among the parties contesting election in Kogi was through my efforts, financially and otherwise,\u201d he declared.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Dr. Sunday Abuh, candidate of the United Peoples\u2019 Congress (UPC), in the Nov 16 Kogi State governorship election, has distanced himself from claims that he had stepped down from the race and endorsed All Progressives Congress, APC\u2019s Yahaya Bello. Mr. Moses Damisa, UPC Chairman in Kogi, had told newsmen on Friday that Abuh had stepped […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":129720,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1,3,4],"tags":[27,44,443],"class_list":["post-166631","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-more","category-news","category-politics","tag-27","tag-election","tag-kebbi"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166631","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=166631"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166631\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/129720"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=166631"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=166631"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=166631"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}