Ten of the 14 aspirants contesting for
the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP)
governorship ticket in the Adamawa
State governorship by-election have
come together against Mallam Nuhu
Ribadu and three others.
The others are former Lagos State
Military Administrator Gen. Buba
Marwa, ex-Universal Basic Education
Commission (UBEC) Executive Secretary
Dr. Ahmed Modibo and former
governorship candidate Marcus Gundiri.
In the gang-up are Acting Governor
Umar Fintiri, Mr. Ahmed Gulak, Awwal
Tukur, James Barka, Sen Abubakar
Girei, Dr. Idi Hong, Aliyu Kama, Umar
Ardo, Jerry Kumdisi and Dr. Andrawus
Sawa.
Eight of the aspirants stormed the party
secretariat in Yola yesterday. Finitiri and
Dr. Sawa were absent.
Spokesman of the group and former
presidential adviser Ahmed Gulak said
the 10 of them had resolved to come
together in the interest of the party and
the people.
“We are the only PDP family members;
any other person outside is not PDP.
Any other person outside the listed
persons is not PDP,” Gulak said.
Gulak said they would remain vigilant
for today’s ward congress to check any
attempt to use non party members as
delegates by any person or group.
“Tomorrow (today) is ward congress.
Anybody who brings three delegates
from the 226 wards outside the party
structure will be resisted,” Gulak
warned.
He said they would resist any imposition
of candidate from the national
leadership of the PDP and the
Presidency for the October 11 by-
election.
Gulak said they resolved not to allow a
stranger to become the standard bearer
of the party they laboured for.
Gulak said they would not recognise
Ribadu, Dr. Moddibo, Gen. Marwa and
Mr. Gundiri as bonafide members of the
party.
He insisted that the group would not
allow an outsider to rob them of their
right in the house they built.
Gulak boasted that one of the 10
aspirants will emerge as the party’s
standard bearer.
The party’s state deputy chairman,
Alhaji Jingi Rufai, praised the aspirants
for their decision to unite for a common
cause saying their action would ensure
transparency in the primary.
Rufai said party officials had met over
the ward congress and resolved that
strict compliance with the party
constitution would be observed.
Rufai said the party was aware of some
“fake registers” and membership forms
in circulation, warning that those
planning to rig the congress would be
disappointed.
But the immediate past state Secretary
of PDP and a leading campaigner for the
Ribadu candidacy, Mr Phineas Elisha,
said the action of the aspirants
amounted to indiscipline as the National
Working Committee (NWC) of the PDP
had cleared them to contest.
Elisha said the party’s constitution
should determine who is a member and
not individuals.
“You cannot just come out because you
hate the face of a person to say he is
not a member.
“How can you say that a person that
registered, request for and was granted
waiver is not a member of a party?
People need to show respect to the
party’s constitution,” Elisha said. thenationonlineng.net/new/fintiri-nine-others-gang-up-against-ribadu-marwa/

Ribadu and Marwa is APC mega calculation. Any of them as Governor will be a Win-Win for APC.