{"id":11338,"date":"2026-05-19T19:46:49","date_gmt":"2026-05-19T19:46:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/beadysword.com.ng\/blog\/?p=11338"},"modified":"2026-05-19T20:12:25","modified_gmt":"2026-05-19T20:12:25","slug":"isa-pantami-pulled-out-of-the-all-progressives-congress-apc-governorship-race","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/beadysword.com.ng\/blog\/2026\/05\/19\/isa-pantami-pulled-out-of-the-all-progressives-congress-apc-governorship-race\/","title":{"rendered":"Isa Pantami pulled out of the All Progressives Congress, APC, governorship race"},"content":{"rendered":"

Isa Pantami, former Minister of Communications and Digital Economy, has pulled out of the All Progressives Congress, APC, governorship primaries in Gombe State.<\/p>\n

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Pantami announced his withdrawal on Tuesday through a statement issued by Barrister Ibrahim M. Attahir on behalf of the Pantamiyya Movement.<\/p>\n

The statement said the former minister cited violations of the Electoral Act 2026 as the reason for his withdrawal.<\/p>\n

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He also referenced what he described as the APC leadership\u2019s failure to provide information needed for a transparent and credible primary election in Gombe State.<\/p>\n

The statement added that letters written by his solicitors to party officials regarding the exercise were neither acknowledged nor answered.<\/p>\n

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\u201cIn a democracy, the law must guide the process. Non-compliance with the Electoral Act 2026 and the party guidelines renders the exercise unsafe and illegitimate,\u201d the statement said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Isa Pantami, former Minister of Communications and Digital Economy, has pulled out of the All Progressives Congress, APC, governorship primaries in Gombe State. Pantami announced his withdrawal on Tuesday through a statement issued by...<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":11339,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11338","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/beadysword.com.ng\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11338","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/beadysword.com.ng\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/beadysword.com.ng\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/beadysword.com.ng\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/beadysword.com.ng\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11338"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/beadysword.com.ng\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11338\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11348,"href":"https:\/\/beadysword.com.ng\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11338\/revisions\/11348"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/beadysword.com.ng\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11339"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/beadysword.com.ng\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11338"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/beadysword.com.ng\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11338"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/beadysword.com.ng\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11338"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}