BEVERLY HILLS, April 06, (THEWILL) – Angered by the manner federal appointments and projects allocated to his state were being handled, the Adamawa State Governor, Umaru Jibrilla Bindow, has warned that he and officials of the state government may have no other option but to dump the All Progressives Congress, APC, if the situation continues.
The Governor’s Chief of Staff, Abdulrahman Jimeta, who stated this on Thursday, explained that various appointments from the state were made without any input from the state government, asserting that many of the federal appointees were unknown to the government.
Jimeta made this complaint against the APC-led federal government in the presence of the Governor without any rebuke, while addressing a team from the APC National Secretariat that was in the state to conduct the North-east mini convention of the party.
The Senator Abdulkadir Jajere-led team was in Yola to brief the Governor on arrangements for filling vacant party positions in the zone created by appointments in Adamawa state.
But while Bindow looked on, his chief of staff said, “We here are loyal, but tell the leadership of the party that there is limit to loyalty and that party business is optional. In fact, even religion, you have the right to change it because of pressure.
“So, tell them we are loyal, but there is limit to that, especially if they are not recognising us, since we are the army of the party that is supposed to enjoy the fruits of the party; or out of frustration we join the opposition enemy party.
“Unfortunately, there is no difference between an opposition state and APC-led state like Adamawa because even appointments at the federal, we are not consulted.
“Some of them, we don’t know them neither were we consulted before their appointments as indigenes of Adamawa State.”
Jimeta continued that even some of the federal projects which were supposed to be enjoyed by the state were being “hijacked by some people in Abuja”.
“Even our own rights that we are supposed to get through some agencies like UBEC (Universal Basic Education Commission) and MDGs (Millennium Development Goals) were hijacked and (when) we contacted them, we were told that somebody somewhere has collected the money and is doing the contract somewhere,” he pointed out.
The Secretary to the Government of the Federation, Engr. David Babachir Lawal, hails from Hong local government area of Adamawa state.
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