Nigeria, May 14 -- Ishaku Abbo, a former senator who represented Adamawa North Senatorial District from 2019 to 2023, has purchased the Labour Party's expression of interest and nomination forms to contest the 2027 governorship election.

Mr Abbo completed the purchase of the forms on Wednesday at the party's headquarters in Abuja.

The party's National Publicity Secretary, Ken Asogwa, said this in a statement on Wednesday.

The former senator contested the 2023 senatorial election on the platform of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) before he was removed by the Court of Appeal in October 2023. The court subsequently declared Amos Yohanna of the Peoples Democratic Party as the winner.

Mr Abbo hails from the same Adamawa North Se...