Alhaji Ibrahim Ahmed, the state Legal Adviser of the party, confirmed this in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on Wednesday in Zaria.
NAN reports that no fewer than nine governorship candidates in Kaduna state have endorsed PDP’s Isa Ashiru as their consensus governorship candidate for the poll.
Acting under the aegis of ‘Kaduna State Rescue and Rebuild Gubernatorial candidates Forum,’ they said the Muslim-Muslim ticket of the All Progressives Congress was a mere ploy to divide the state along religious lines.
The forum urged eligible voters in the state to stay away from the All Progressives Congress (APC), which they said had inflicted hardship on them over the past eight years.
However, the NNPP legal adviser described the introduction of `religious politics’ as a bad omen to the nation’s democracy.
He added that the NNPP, either at the state or national level, was unaware of such an alliance, stressing that neither the state nor the national working committee was mindful of such an alliance.
“The party needs to make all the necessary arrangements for an understanding between the two parties, an individual (gubernatorial candidate) cannot go into a such alliance without understanding from the party executives,’’ he said.
However, Ahmed said NNPP was not against an alliance with any party, adding that such an alliance should come from the party itself, not the candidate.
He, therefore, advised members and supporters of the NNPP to wait for the approval of the state or national working committee on the purported alliance.