These include: Minister for Innovation Science and Technology Uche Nnaji and Minister of Sports Development John Owan Enoh both defeated governorship candidates; Minister of Transportation Sa'idu Ahmed Alkali who lost his Gombe State senate seat to former governor Ibrahim Dankwambo; Minister of Women's Affairs Uju 'Mama Onboard' Kennedy-Ohanenye who curtailed her quixotic presidential campaign in the middle of the APC convention serendipitously throwing her support to Tinubu; Minister of State for Steel Development Uba Maigari Ahmadu a provincial party hack; Minister of State for Agriculture and Food Security Aliyu Sabi Abdullahi who ceded his senate seat to Niger State's APC outgoing governor Abubakar 'Lolo' Sani Bello; Minister of Information and National Orientation Mohammed Idris 'Malagi' who served as communications director of Tinubu's presidential campaign; and Minister of State for Water Resources and Sanitation Bello Muhammad Goronyo a chameleon-like career politician who until recently oversaw APC party structures across north-western Nigeria...
APC candidate Inuwa Yahaya enjoys the support of former governor and senator Danjuma Goje while outgoing governor Ibrahim Dankwambo is backing former Deputy House of Representatives Speaker Usman Nafada of the PDP...
Gombe's PDP governor Ibrahim Dankwambo is stepping down after two terms and appears ready to keep the state for PDP which may also help Atiku...
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Two other party figures – Sule Lamido former governor of Jigawa state and ex-foreign minister and Ibrahim Dankwambo governor of Gombe state – have their own strong political bases...
The same could be said for the PDP's other top contenders: former chairman Ahmed Makarfi Gombe State governor Ibrahim Dankwambo and two governors Sule Lamido (Jigawa State) and Ibrahim Shekarau (Kano)...
The then Accountant General Ibrahim Dankwambo now Governor of Gombe State approved 128 subsidy payments of 999 mn...
