By; JACOB ONJEWU DICKSON
In a town hall meeting on Saturday January 29, thousands of All Progressives Congress (APC) members and supporters met in Yola and vowed to chart a way forward for the gubernatorial ambition of Alhaji Umar Mustapha Madawaki (Otumba of Ekiti) who is aspiring to be the next governor of Adamawa State.
The meeting with the theme; “Facing the future together” brought together APC Stakeholders from Yola South, Fofure and Girei, leading to fruitful discussions at Farama Hall in Shagari, Yola-town, Yola-South LGA area of Adamawa State.
In the meeting, people took turns and delivered hopeful and ambitious speeches of winning an election come 2023, stressing that to them, Umar is the most sellable aspirant in APC.
Madawaki in his speech to the mammoth crowd and APC stakeholders, reiterated that his decision to run for the seat of the governor was borne out of the desire to provide the needed dividends of democracy to the people of Adamawa State.
While seeking their support to enable him emerge as the APC flag-bearer in the 2023 gubernatorial election, he said if the mandate is given to him, he promises to ensure that the party waxes stronger in the state as well as emerges victorious in the coming 2023 general elections.
“I know and I recognize how important you are to our great party APC, hence my decision to call for this town hall meeting for us to rub minds on how to take over power from PDP in the State,” Umar said
He expressed readiness, willingness, commitment, and determination to carry everybody along and run an all-inclusive government by God’s will if he wins the election in 2023.
A stakeholder, Alh. Sallau Amanda in his speech made a passion to all party leaders in the state and the twenty-one local government areas to unite for the overall goal of winning the election in 2023.
He said this can only be done when party stakeholders are fair to all members and it’s only unity of purpose when harps in fair play in whatever the party is doing will guarantee victory.
According to him, “Madawaki is one among many aspirants who will help in bringing the party to the table of consensus, this is all we are praying for, APC should sit down and give us who to work for in 2023.
“I believe that our party is one to beat come 2023, we have all that it takes to win the election,” Salla said.
In his speech, the APC Chairman of Yola-South LGA, Alhaji Ahmadu Mohammed Mbamoi extolled Madawaki’s foresight and ingenuity of sponsoring revalidation of voters’ cards across the state to all people irrespective of party divide.
He said this effort by him takes only a leader whose love is for humanity and shows he has special regards for APC and the people of Adamawa State.
He assured the APC gubernatorial aspirant of unrelenting support whenever he secures the party ticket.
Another APC stakeholder, Alh. Babalu Hassan said it gladdens his heart for someone from Adamawa Central Senatorial Zone to declare intentions for the governorship seat they have been seeking for long.
He called on all people to rally round Umar to see the dream of the central zone in producing a governor come to fruition.
