GOVERNOR Ahmadu Fintiri of Adamawa State on Saturday took his re-election campaign to Borrong, the heartland town of the Mbula people, where he received a pledge of block votes.
The crowd that welcomed Fintiri to Borrong, however, openly spurned the re-election effort of their own representative in the state House of Assembly, Kate Mamuno of the Demsa constituency, who was on the governor’s entourage.
Fintiri had mounted the podium with the lawmaker and other party bigwigs to assure the people of Borrong and surrounding communities that their welfare would be his priorities should they give him their votes during the March 11 governorship election.
He also pledged that the dilapidated road from Yola to Borrong would be rehabilitated if re-elected.
The governor, however, ran into open opposition when he tried to make a case for the re-election of their lawmaker, Kate Mamuno.
It immediately became clear that the lawmaker, who was elected under the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in 2019 as the sole female among 25 state lawmakers, is having issues with her own people, as they shouted, ‘We don’t want’, ‘We don’t want’.
Fintiri, however, pleaded that she should be forgiven of whatever she might have done wrong, but the crowd persisted, with some even asking that she should leave the podium.
Some of those opposing her complained that she is a highly withdrawn person who behaves as if the people she claims to represent mean nothing to her.