The family spirit in Adamawa PDP

The convoy, of course, was that of the party’s gubernatorial candidate, Mallam Nuhu Ribadu and other aspirants for various positions which was on a door-to-door visit of appreciation to stakeholders and party’s delegates who were instructive to the candidates’ emergence. In the words of the commissioner, the race for the party’s tickets is always riddled […]

The convoy, of course, was that of the party’s gubernatorial candidate, Mallam Nuhu Ribadu and other aspirants for various positions which was on a door-to-door visit of appreciation to stakeholders and party’s delegates who were instructive to the candidates’ emergence. In the words of the commissioner, the race for the party’s tickets is always riddled with infighting and intrigues but at the end of it all everyone would have to bury the hatchet for a common good of the party as no politician would want to stay in the losing side.
But the thought line of Mrs Yakubu had received a deeper philosophical explication from no other person than the Executive Governor of Adamawa State, Barrister Bala James Nggilari, a few days earlier. On Ribadu’s arrival in Yola, penultimate Monday, he went straight from the airport to call in on the governor. The warm reception accorded the candidate and his entourage by the governor is itself a pointer to a new chapter, the chapter of a governor as a leader of the party willing to support a saleable article of the party.
Success requires unity to confront a common front and it was for this that Nggilari made a double charge; to the victors and the vanquished. For those saddled with the party’s tickets, the governor emphasised on the need to reach out to all and sundry, extend the olive branch and open doors for everybody. He noted that every stakeholder indeed has some stake and he or she should be fully involved and integrated into the party’s campaign train. To those who could not clinch the tickets, the governor asked for them large heartedness and the need to put the state and the party over any personal ambition. To set precedent, Nggilari openly declared his total support and endorsement of Ribadu, by way of clearing any iota of doubt about his loyalty to the party. “You’re at home,” he told the candidate and his entourage, “I will do everything to support you, and every other aspirant including my humble self, at whatever level.”
It is heartwarming to see PDP’s formidable juggernauts working hand in hand to uphold that history of Adamawa as a state won by the ruling party since the beginning of this dispensation. Aside Ngillari, key party leaders such as the two senators of the party; Senator Bello Tukur (Adamawa Central) and Senator Ahmed Barata (Adamawa South), members of the House of Representatives, members of the Adamawa State House of Assembly led by the Speaker, Hon. Ahmadu Umaru Fintiri, and several other elders and stakeholders are in unity on the need to work for the party. Of course it is not over, as the saying goes, until it is over. Consolidating on the reconciliation and unification of all party members is something that is very much needed. With what is on ground, however, it is clear that the dust that trailed the process of producing candidates of the PDP in Adamawa State is fully settled and the chapter of working as a family is now before all stakeholders.
Abdulaziz writes from Jimeta, Yola