Media aides to Governor Ahmadu Fintiri of Adamawa State assured on Saturday that the matter of the substantive chairman for Fufore Local Government which arose after the chairman, Shuaibu Babas, died on the 23rd of last month, will be sorted out equitably.
The aides gave the assurance against insinuations that the Vice Chairman, Mrs Peace Audu might eventually not be pronounced as the substantive chairman because she is a woman and a Christian in an area that has an Emirate traditional leadership.
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During a media interaction termed First Quarter Media Parley addressed by the media aides in Yola, the Chief Press Secretary to Governor Ahmadu Fintiri, Mr Humwashi Wonosikou, said, “As media aides to the governor, we can tell you that Governor Fintiri is a true democratic, a most tolerant and unbiased leader.”
Wonosikou said Fintiri who initiated the idea of a mixed-gender council leadership whereby a woman must be vice chairman if the chairman is a man and vice versa, cannot now be scheming against a woman replacing a deceased chairman.
“Fintiri remains keen that women get their due,” Wonosikou asserted, adding that although she is yet to be officially sworn in, Peace is currently the one at the helm in Fufore Local Government.