Speaking to The Guardian in Yola, Halladu, the Sarduana of Jimeta expressed worry that the people of the state were undergoing undue hardship in the state which was not what they bargained for when they supported and voted APC into power.
According to him, the mantra of APC leadership in the country, which is positive change for development, had been abandoned for personal and selfish interest of some people in government
He said: “We worked for our party and we ensured that Bindow won the election bearing in mind that he has the capacity to restore the lost glory of the state, but unfortunately, we now discovered that our case in Adamawa now is like from frying pan into fire. Our search for good leadership has landed us
in a bigger trouble. Only God and the national leadership of APC can rescue us from the trouble we have put ourselves in. For me, it is only apology that I can give the people of the state.”
The politician stated that several attempts by the party chieftains in the state to draw the attention of the governor to the major and dangerous lapses of his government have fallen on deaf ears.
The APC chief said the situation in the state was affecting the image of the party in future elections, urging President Muhammadu Buhari and the national leadership of the party to intervene quickly to avoid total collapse of the state before next year.
He explained that the opposition Peoples Democratic Party was not only watching the lapses of the APC government in the state but also building fast on it.
“Immediately the governor took over the mantle of leadership within three weeks without a cabinet, he awarded road construction contracts worth over N6 billion. This is completely abuse of the provisions of the Constitution and the due process. It is only the state executive that has the constitutional powers to approve contracts. Buhari did not award any contract up till now because he is yet to constitute a cabinet. The governor’s commissioner for information out of ignorance was saying that the governor can spend money without cabinet on emergency, but what he fails to understand is that such situations are limited to security issues only, but not award of road contracts. When did road project become an emergency issue that the governor cannot wait for his cabinet to be constituted?” he queried.
Halladu said the APC chieftains in the state cannot just fold their hands and watch an individual destroy the hard work of the party, adding that if the governor fails to respond to the yearnings of the people of the state for positive change, they would effect the change through the ballot-box in the next elections
Bindow, the candidate of the APC was declared winner of the 2015 governorship election in Adamawa state. He scored 362,329 votes to defeat the Social Democratic Party’s Markus Gundiri, who polled 181,806 votes and candidate of the PDP, Nuhu Ribadu who scored 98,917.
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