Ahead of the 2015 general elections,
Governor James Ngilari of Adamawa State
has been barred from contesting the
governorship election of the state on the
platform of the Peoples Democratic Party.
The party said it was bound to comply with
the agreement it entered into with
governorship aspirants from the state about
two months ago.
The decision to ban Ngilari was taken at the
meeting of the members of the National
Working Committee of the party in Abuja on
Wednesday night.
National Publicity Secretary of the party,
Chief Olisa Metuh, disclosed this to
journalists in Abuja, Thursday.
According to Metuh, the next governorship
candidate of the party would come from the
Central Senatorial District of the state, which
has never produced a governor.
Ngilari is from the northern part of the state.
He said, “On Adamawa, the NWC has decided
that the decision and agreements of the
candidates in Adamawa during our last
exercise would be upheld.
“Accordingly, the governorship election in
2015 has been zoned to Adamawa Central.
All aspirants, who bought forms (eight of
them) that signed the agreement and
withdrew are advised to come and exchange
it without any payment with the new 2015
forms.
“It means they are entitled to run since they
are from the same senatorial zone. The party
will fully implement that agreement”.
It would be recalled that the former acting
governor of the state, Alhaji Ahmadu Fintiri
and seven other governorship aspirants in the
state stormed the PDP national headquarters
in Abuja on Wednesday to insist that Mr.
Ngilari must not be allowed to contest the
governorship primary of the party in the
state.
The eight aspirants insisted that the zoning
arrangement earlier reached with them by
the party must be respected.
Apart from Fintiri, those who also visited the
party to register their grievances were a
former political aide to President Goodluck
Jonathan, Ahmed Gulak; son of a former
PDP national chairman, Awwal Tukur, former
minister of health, Idi Hong; Mr. James
Barka, Aliyu kama, Marcus Gundiri and
Abubakar Girei.
A former Chairman of the Economic and
Financial Crime Commission, Nuhu Ribadu,
who was part of the team with whom the
agreement was made, was conspicuously
absent.
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