George Okoh in Makurdi
The governorship candidate of the African Democratic Congress (ADC) in Benue State, Herman Hembe, has declared that the ADC’s presidential candidate, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, will win the 2027 election.
Hembe disclosed this in Makurdi yesterday while unveiling his deputy, John Abba.
He had constituted a committee to select the party deputy governorship candidate a few days after he emerged as the party’s gubernatorial candidate.
According to Hembe, the selection of deputy governorship candidate which has the endorsement of the national chairman of the party, Senator David Mark, was transparent.
Hembe said, “Let me congratulate Abba on his selection as deputy governorship candidate of the party. We constituted a team to consult and get the deputy governorship candidate and our leader, David Mark ensured the process was transparent.”
Speaking on the permutations, Hembe stated that all things are working in favour of the party presidential candidate.
“Our permutations are that the votes from the Southern part of the country will be shared between Peter Obi and Bola Tinubu and we are very sure that none of Obi and Tinubu will be able to defeat Atiku in the three geo political zones in the North,” Hembe said.
While charging the party members to go all out to work for all the party candidates at the presidential election, Hembe assured that there will be band wagon effects on the second election.
“Our hardest job is to work and ensure that our party wins the presidential and National Assembly elections, then, we will just go and sleep because that victory will have a positive effect on our election.”
Hembe promised that he is only going to spend a term in office to complete the eight years of Jechira Zone and create history to hand over to the Benue South senatorial district, known as Zone C.