Following his defeat in the 8th, December, 2014, PDP gubernatorial Primary in Nasarawa State, the immediate past Minister of Information, Mr. Labaran Maku, is manoeuvering his way to become the Labour Party’s flag bearer in the State, come 2015.

Maku has since rejected the result of the PDP primary, alleging irregularities.

Following his defeat in the 8th, December, 2014, PDP gubernatorial Primary in Nasarawa State, the immediate past Minister of Information, Mr. Labaran Maku, is manoeuvering his way to become the Labour Party’s flag bearer in the State, come 2015.

Maku has since rejected the result of the PDP primary, alleging irregularities.

Rather than remain within his party to either support the winner or challenge the primary in court, Mr. Maku is working with some leaders of the Labour Party to become the party’s candidate.

However a major hindrance to the for Information Minister’s plans, is the firm stance of Mr. Innocent Lagi to retain his candidacy of the Labour Party.

It would be recalled that Lagi was elected unopposed at the Labour Party primary held in Akwanga on 10th, December, 2014.

It was gathered that since Maku realised the PDP would not revert the result of the primaries, he has been holding series of meeting with Labour Party leaders including Mr. Lagi to replace the latter.

The Labour Party candidate confirmed that he had held two meetings with Mr. Maku. “I had two meetings with Maku wanting to know what was happening.

Lagi said”I made it clear to him and showed him certified true copies of my certificate as the candidate of the party because the party didn’t tell him that primaries were already conducted.

The candidate said he was not going to let go of his mandate, and was going to take his party and Mr. Maku to court for trying to steal his mandate.

“It is true I am taking Labaran Maku and the Labour Party to court,” he said.

“Because after the primaries, the Labour Party is trying to sell a mandate of the people of the party from Nasarawa State.

Lagi said the Labour Party leaders have refused to give him “the INEC (governorship) forms on the grounds that they want to substitute me.

He said he was currently “taking proactive moves before the matter is sabotaged beyond repairs.

“The party had already concluded primaries and I was returned unopposed as the candidate for the Labour Party in a valid primaries conducted on the 10th, December, 2014, and monitored by INEC and the report submitted to INEC,” he said.

Meanwhile, the INEC official in charge of monitoring party primaries in Nasarawa, Fidelis Usar, confirmed that the commission monitored the primaries and Mr. Lagi was the candidate of the party.

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