I've no course of action to challenge 2019 presidential race—Gov. Badaru

Gov. Muhammad Badaru of Jigawa has denied nursing any aspiration to challenge the 2019 presidential race under the stage of the All Progressives Congress (APC).

The senator who made his position known in an announcement issued on Saturday in Dutse by his media associate, Malam Bello Zaki likewise repudiated and disassociated himself from a gathering supporting him to keep running for the administration in the 2019 general decisions.

"The consideration of the Jigawa State Government has been attracted to an evil paid daily paper ad indicated to have been made by a faceless and obscure association called `Muhammadu Badaru Abubakar for President Support Group', which purportedly pointed its help to the current remarks by previous President Obsanjo.

"The State Government therefore approaches the overall population to reject and disregard the false and noxious promotion and the message and abhorrence insinuation it means to engender".

The representative said that he neither have nor embraced any association or gathering for the motivation behind competing for any national office.

"Representative Badaru Abubakar does not have and does not support any association to achieve or competing for any national office as he thinks about the difficulties of administering his state and conveying on the command given to him by the Jigawa electorate.

"We comprehend that there are people inside and outside the express that see the sincere and dynamic relationship that exists between the Governor and the Presidency as unfriendly to their own, political interests and goals, particularly in the light of a few national assignments that the Governor is effectively doing at the command of the President and Commander in Chief of the Armed Forces.

"We are working with the daily paper that conveyed the unsavory publicizing with a view to recognizing the bastards behind its distribution and will utilize all accessible lawful roads to guarantee that they pay for this devious endeavor at souring the connection between the State and the National Government," it said.

The senator, subsequently, encouraged the overall population to disregard this and any future endeavor to slander the workplace of the representative utilizing shabby and dull media mutilation.

The legislature additionally prompted media associations to put demonstrable skill above business contemplations.

It ordered the media to use industry's best practice and rules in deciding the character of people and elements before distributing or broadcasting political and possibly disputable substance in light of a legitimate concern for national peace, dependability and advance.