Former Toronto city councillor Doug Ford, brother of the controversial late mayor Rob Ford, says he will not be running for a vacant seat in Toronto's city council.
There was speculation he may pursue the council seat previously held by Raymond Cho after a late-night media release, saying he would be at city hall for "the registration for the Ward 42 byelection."
Registration for the seat has been open since Nov. 10.
But he told the Toronto TV station CP24 on Friday that he was just going to support another candidate's registration.
Ford held a west Toronto council seat until 2014, when he unsuccessfully ran for mayor after his brother dropped out following a cancer diagnosis.
He was one of his brother's closest advisers during the the younger Ford's scandal-plagued term as Toronto's mayor.
NEWSTALK 1010 contributor and activist Knia Singh has declared his candidacy for the February byelection.
Singh pursued the Liberal nomination in the Scabrorough Rouge River byelection that Cho won, but the party backed Piragal Thiru.
with files from Siobhan Morris