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By Francis Nansak
Some major critical stakeholders of the ruling All Progressives Congress from Toto Local Government Area have met with their counterparts of Nasarawa of Nasarawa State seeking Barrister Labaran Shuiabu Magaji, a Senatorial aspirant is supported to succeed Senator Abdullahi Adamu in 2023.
At a meeting which held in Marhaba farms along Keffi road in Nasarawa town on Sunday was at the instance of Senator Abubakar Danso Sodangi among other relevant stakeholders from the areas.
The stakeholders from Toto, the country home of Barrister Magaji in their various submissions appealed to their Nasarawa LGA counterparts to as a matter of political and brotherly consideration, support their own, (Magaji) in order to succeed Senator Adamu, who is most likely to become the next APC national chairman.
Recalling that in 1999 to 2011, Nasarawa Local Government, with the support from Toto, elected Senator Sodangi all through his 12 years stayed in the Senate.
“We replicated same when in 2011 our former governor, Senator Abdullahi Adamu from Keffi sought our support and we wholeheartedly supported him to become senator.
“It is with this background that we the major stakehders from toto seek your support of you our brothers from Nasarawa in order to support our son Barrister Labaran Shuiabu Magaji to succeed our father, senator Adamu.
In separate interviews, Senator Sodangi and honourable Samuel Egya, a former House of Representatives member, who is now SSA to the Nasarawa State governor on Government House affairs, told newsmen that Barrister Magaji is a marketable material who is humble and obedient person.
According to Senator Sodangi, politics is all about consultation and lobbying which the Barrister Magaji team is the first to have approached stakeholders in a gathering.
Egya said what Barrister Magaji have started is very fundamental and it is what is expected from any politician.
He stated that humility and obedience are tools for the progress and success of any aspirant.
He pointed out that from the consultation, he has seen prospect in the ambition of the aspirant of Barrister Magaji being the first among others to consider the role of critical stakeholders from the area and bring them together.
