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  • Bindow presents N230bn for 2019 fiscal year

    Governor Mohammed Jibrilla Bindow of Adamawa State has presented a  budget proposal of N230.9 billion for the 2019 fiscal year to the state House of Assembly.
    Fifty-five percent of the proposal is for capital projects while the balance of 45 percent is for recurrent expenditure.
    Presenting the budget on Tuesday, Bindow specified that of the total N230, 989,412,375,  the sum of N127,494,176,800 would be spent on development projects while N103,495,235,575 would take care of recurrent expenditures.
     
    Bindow said the fiscal proposal, christained Budget of Next Level, would be applied to consolidate on the ‘massive’ development projects that his administration has executed since he became governor three and a half years ago.
     
    Bindow who is particularly credited with good road networks in the state capital, Yola, and other major towns across the state, assured the House of Assembly that the proposed budget would be used to execute yet more development projects.

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    “I thank you for the good partnership  we’ve always had. We will continue to justify the confidence that you have reposed in us,” Bindow told the members of the House of Assembly. 
     
    Responding, the House Speaker, Kabiru Mijinyawa, said the House would give the fiscal proposal accelerated deliberations.
     
    And as if to prove his commitment to that promise, he promptly presided over a second reading of the proposal before the governor was ushered out of the Assembly.
     
    The speaker who addressed pressmen immediately after the sitting, said the proposal would pass to appropriate  committees within the week and that the House intended to conclude legislative proceedings on the proposal before this month runs out.

  • I became governor by destiny – Bindow

    The governor of Adamawa state, Muhammed Umar has said he never thought of becoming a politician ever in his life talk more of nursing a governorship aspiration.
    He said my becoming the governor of Adamawa state today is just the work of God Almighty because as a young man, becoming a politician was not part of what I aspired to be. God just decided that I should be a governor at this particular period in time.
    Governor Bindow stated this in Jos on Saturday during the 35th anniversary dinner of Miango Old Boys Association (MIOSA) organized by Set 83 held at Three Angels Suites Rayfield Jos.
    Governor Bindow is an alumni of Government Secondary school Miango, Bassa local government of Plateau state and was part of the set that graduated in 1983 alongside with Honorable Aliyu Wadada of Nasarawa state.
    Gov. Bindow who was honored by the Set 83 as the most successful of the alumni said, “I am not cut out for politics, people who know the background I come from knows that I am not born into politics. It is just destiny. But if God want to make you anything that pleases him, else, I never expected to be a politician, talk more of becoming a governor.

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    “So, I belief God just gave me this opportunity to serve my people, and when God give such opportunity to serve, you should serve selflessly, and that is what I’m doing in Adamawa state. I tried to do my best out of the little resources available.
    “And today, people can see what I have been able to do for the state. I took over the state that was in very bad state as far as infrastructure is concerned. With no apology to anyone, Adamawa was the most backward state as at the time I took over in 2015. But the God that puts me there has been helping me and has not deserted me in the phase of the huge challenges that I’m confronted with as governor”
    The governor admonished that members of the set be encouraged to join politics by those who are into politics.
    He promised to make personal contribution as member of the alumni to assist other members as well as the alumni body.
    Earlier in a welcome address, national president of the old boys Mr Ishaku Mbu, said Gov Bindow is the first Old Boys of the school to become governor.
    Mr. Mbu said, “Let me use this opportunity to clear the rumor making the round that Gov. Bindow never went to school. Nothing can be more childish than that. We in Miango Old Boys association and particularly myself as the national president is a living prove that the Governor went to school”
    He encouraged the governor not to be deterred by such distractions but remain focus in delivering dividend of democracy to Adamawa people.

  • ‘States can pay N75,000 minimum wage if……’

    A governorship candidate for the All Blending Party (ABP) in Adamawa State,  Dr Daniel Shaga Ismaila has said that state governments can pay their workers as much as N 75,000 minimum monthly wage if they handle their economies right and tackle corruption effectively.
    Ismaila made this assertion Friday while addressing newsmen in Yola, saying the N30,000 minimum wage proposed for civil servants by a committee on minimum wage would be too small for states to bicker about if they do the right thing to achieve desired results.
    “We are making a mockery of corruption fighting. We have not started fighting corruption. Only one or two people decide who is corrupt,” he said, adding, “We can pay N75,000 minimum wage if we manage our economy well and tackle corruption wholesomely.”

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    Daniel Ismaila urged the Adamawa electorate to move away from tagging along with the big parties and known names who promise big and deliver little and go instead for the fresh names with good manifesto.

    “We have travelled the wrong road for too long. We are now left with broken walls which expose us to shame and to ridicule… The need to rebuild everything that is broken around us is as urgent as it is imperative. This is the season and it is also the reason why I am offering my services to you,” the Adamawa State governorship candidate of the All Blending Party said.

  • 11,500 AAN members defect to SDP in Adamawa

    The Social Democratic Party (SDP), Adamawa State’s third most popular party after ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) and People’s Democratic Party (PDP), has received 11,500 members of the Alliance for New Nigeria (ANN), including its state chairman, Mr Robinson Mathias.

    Mathias who led the defectors to a reception held for them at the SDP state Secretariat in Yola Friday, said their decision was prompted by ‘gross injustice’ meted out to them by the national headquarters of the ANN, and that they were in any case never satisfied with the manifesto of the party.

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    “Having carefully evaluated the manifesto of the party and the injustice by the national headquarters, we opted for the SDP which has a state chairman and governorship candidate that we have faith in,” Mathias said.

    Receiving the decampees on behalf of the National Chairman of the SDP Chief Olu Falae, the Adamawa State Chairman of the party, John Muva, assured that the new members and the old members would be treated in equal fairness.

    “The SDP is waxing stronger daily and we are set to win the state,” he stressed.

    The governorship candidate of the SDP in the state, Chief Emmanuel Bello, is a former House of Representatives member who has done much over the months to give visibility and reckoning to the party.

  • Adamawa polio vaccination rise to 67%

    The rate of routine polio vaccination in Adamawa State has risen to 67 per cent.
    This is a huge improvement on what used to be the case, according to the Technical Assistant on Immunization for the state, Dr John Sabo who said in a media interaction in Yola, that it used to be 38 percent.
    Adamawa State, like the rest of Nigeria is currently looking to being be certified polio free. Nigeria in 2012 accounted for more than half of polio cases globally but it made gains and on July 24, 2016 the country marked two years without a case, only for the story to change not long afterwards, on August 11 2016, when the Federal Government reported that two children had been paralyzed by the polio virus in Borno, a state within the same Northeast region as Adamawa.

    Read Also: Five cattle traders killed in Adamawa militia attack

    The Adamawa vaccination technical official who spoke in view of the World Polio Day scheduled for October 24, said the state was able to record high success with vaccination after deliberate steps that enhanced access to otherwise hard to reach areas, and assured of yet further efforts to increase the reach.
    Success with anti-polio vaccination would certainly also have been helped by receding insurgency activities in recent times, prompting a marked departure from when seven local government areas: Madagali, Michika, Maiha, Mubi North, Mubi South, Hong and Gombi were in the grip of the Boko Haram elements.

  • Five cattle traders killed in Adamawa militia attack

    Five cattle traders have been killed in an attack carried out by suspected militiamen in Pasham, a village in Bali District of Demsa Local Government Area of Adamawa State.
    The Nation gathered Tuesday that the incident took place Monday morning when the traders who were mostly cattle merchants travelling in a truck to the Iwere International Cattle Market located in Taraba State ran into an ambush by the militiamen in Pasham.
    Sources close to the scene said the militiamen were on a revenge mission and always waylaid their victims in similar missions on the Numan-Jalingo highway.
    A witness of the Monday incident said that of the travellers in the ill-fated truck, while the five unlucky traders were ‘slaughtered like chickens,’ four were seriously wounded and many fled to nearby bushes.
    The Adamawa State Police Command confirmed the killing of the five, but said normalcy had been restored to the affected area.

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    Spokesman of the command, SP Othman Abubakar, said Tuesday that preliminary investigation had indicated that the attack was carried out by some militias from around the area of the ambush.
    “Five people were killed in the attack. No arrest has been made but a half unit of over 30 mobile policemen has been deployed and they have ensured law and order there,” Abubakar said.

  • Osinbajo, Bindow meet in Aso Rock

    Bindow sneaks out of Villa after meeting 

    Vice President Yemi Osinbajo on Tuesday met behind closed doors with Adamawa State Governor  Jibrilla Bindow at the Presidential Villa, Abuja.
    After over one hour closed doors meeting, Bindow dodged journalists who were waiting to interview him on the primary elections in his state.
    He was sneaked out from the Vice President’s office through the back door when the meeting ended around 5p.m
    Recalled that the Wife of the President, Aisha Muhammadu Buhari, whose brother lost Adamawa APC governorship ticket to Bindow, had on Sunday blamed the National Chairman of the All Progressive Congress (APC), Adams Oshiomhole, over what she described as impunity and unfairness in the conduct of the primary elections of the party.
    She had claimed that the party appeared to have granted automatic tickets to some political office aspirants while denying others the opportunity to contest after paying huge amounts of money to purchase nomination forms.

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    Aisha Buhari regretted that despite coming from Labour background, Oshiomhole left the side of the people and presided over the impunity.
    According to series of post on Twitter handle, @aishabuhari, she also dissociated herself from the exercise.
    She urged Nigerians to resist the impunity.
    She tweeted: “It is disheartening to note that some aspirants used their hard earned money to purchase nomination forms, got screened, cleared and campaigned vigorously yet found their names omitted on Election Day, these forms were bought at exorbitant prices.
    “Many others contested and yet had their result delayed. Fully knowing that automatic tickets have been given to other people.
    “All Progressives Congress being a party whose cardinal principle is change and headed by a comrade/ activist whose main concern is for the common man, yet, such impunity could take place under its watch.
    “It is important for the populace to rise against impunity and for voters to demand from aspirants to be committed to the provision of basic amenities such as: Potable drinking water, Basic health care ( Primary Health Care centers).
    “Given this development one will not hesitate than dissociate from such unfairness, be neutral and speak for the voiceless.

  • Police withdraw escorts attached to politicians

    The Adamawa State Police Command has withdrawn its men and officials attached to politicians across the state.
    The state Commissioner of Police,  Abdullahii Ibrahim said the withdrawal of the escorts,  attached to mostly politicians who were aspirants for various elective offices towards party primaries being concluded, would make available more men and officials to secure the general public.

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    The police commissioner also said in a statement obtained Monday that violent protests against the conduct of the primaries would not be condoned.
    “Aggrieved politicians should seek redress through normal processes. Political leaders are hereby warned to advise their followers to be law abiding as the police command will not condone thuggery,” he stated.

  • Ribadu, Modi reject Adamawa APC governorship primary

    Two of the three governorship aspirants of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Adamawa State, Mahmood Halilu Ahmed (Modi) and Nuhu Ribadu, have said the conduct of the governorship primary across the state Friday through Saturday was so flawed that no result from it could be acceptable to them.
    In separate press briefings Saturday morning,  both aspirants insisted that the primary did not take place anywhere in the state and that they were perplexed that some results were already being bandied.
    Modi who spoke at his ward in Yola town as the results of the primary were being collated at the APC state headquarters in Jimeta,  asserted that the entire process was fraudulent and its result could not stand even in a Banana Republic.
    Proclaiming that he would reject the result of the primary even if he was declared winner,  Modi said,  “The guidelines were flouted so much that an electoral officer who supervised the exercise in Mubi North (Governor Muhammed Jibrilla’s home local government area) announced the result of the election and declared one of the aspirants winner on camera, something which should only be done by the chief returning officer.”

    Read Also: Ribadu, Pate warn against indirect primary

    Reiterating that the APC governorship primary did not take place in Adamawa State,  Modi said,  “We are shocked that they now say they are collating result when no election was held.  I condemn the exercise in its entirety. It isn’t just that it lacks credibility, the election didn’t happen.”
    Nuhu Ribadu sounded the same way during his own press briefing, conducted just before noon Saturday at his campaign office in Jimeta, Yola, contending that no election took place anywhere in Adamawa State and it was therefore impossible to declare any result.
    “Thousands of our supporters trooped to voting centres across the state, but there was no election,  no officials to attend to them and no election materials,” Nuhu Ribadu said,  reiterating during a question and answer section that some of such voters waited as far into Saturday morning as 3 am just to see if any official would turn up for the election to no avail.
    He said he and his team were shocked to hear of collation of result by sunrise Saturday,  adding, “The whole thing is incredible.  How can you conduct a direct primary election in the night? It’s just not possible.”
    He said the questionable exercise was a test of the credibility of the officials of the committee sent to conduct the primary election and urged the national leadership of the APC to intervene.
    “The NWC should step in and save our party from this embarrassing situation. We demand immediate cancellation of the process.  The electoral committee should be disbanded,” he said.
    The electoral committee was yet to react to the allegations by the time this report was being filled Saturday afternoon.
    Modi, Nuhu Ribadu and Muhammed Jibrilla (Bindow) were the three aspirants entered for the Adamawa State governorship primary.

  • Group drags Gov. Bindow to Court over alleged certificate forgery

    The end may not have been heard of cases of certificate forgery in the political scene as a human right group, Global Integrity Crusade Network is accusing Adamawa State Governor, Muhammad Jibrilla Bindow of certificate forgery.
    The group has therefore approached an Abuja Federal High Court, asking the court to compel the Inspector General of Police to prosecute the Governor for offences bothering on perjury.
    In the originating summons dated 26th September, 2018, the plaintiff alleged that the Governor did not to completed his secondary education at the Government Secondary School, Mangu, Plateau State, as claimed.

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    They are also seeking an order of court compelling the West African Examination Council (WAEC) to produce the result of the Governor within fourteen (14) days.
    Joined in the suit instituted on behalf of the registered trustees of the human right body by Tersagh Unande are Governor Bindow, the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), West African Examination Council (WAEC), the All Progressives Congress (APC) and the Nigeria Police Force(NPF) are joined as defendants.