I’m still in SDP, Kente tells Tarabans

Gubernatorial candidate of the Social Democratic Party, SDP in Taraba, Chief David Sabo Kente has denied rumors that he had returned to the ruling Peoples Democratic Party, PDP which he dumped after the PDP’s primaries held in Abuja.
Special Adviser to Kente on Media and Publicity, David Adekoya in a statement maintained that his principal had left the PDP after due consultations with appropriate stakeholders and now remains the governorship candidate of SDP in Taraba.
The adviser described as untrue, the rumour that Chief david Sabo Kente has stepped down for the gubernatorial candidate of the PDP, Darius Ishaku. “These are just desperate lies spread by desperate politicians who having failed to convince the people of Taraba to accept them, have now resorted to delinquent lies.”
The statement quotes Kente as urging the teeming supporters of the SDP governorship candidate and the entire Taraba electorate to discountenance such rumors, as he stressed that there is ‘no retreat, no surrender’ as far as Kente’s gubernatorial race is concerned.
The David Kente Campaign Organization, according to the statement also dissociated itself from the purported endorsement of the PDP gubernatorial candidate by the Taraba Chapter of Christian Association of Nigeria, CAN saying that such move was capable of causing division amongst the people of the state.

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