Ribadu Emerges Adamawa PDP Guber Candidate

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Former Chairman, Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), Mallam Nuhu Ribadu’s decision to dump the All Progressives Congress (APC) for the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) finally paid off on Monday, as he emerged the winner of the party’s gubernatorial primaries in Adamawa.

Ribadu garnered 688 votes at the end of the primaries which took place at the Old Parade Ground, Area 10, Garki, Abuja.

Although, Governor James Bala Ngilari and four other aspirants shunned the process, former Executive Secretary, Universal Basic Education Commission (UBEC), Dr. Ahmed Modibbo; son of former Chairman of PDP, Awwal Bamanga Tukur; Engr. Marcus Gundiri and General Aliyu Kama, rtd. were present.

Announcing the results, Chairman of PDP electoral Committee, Senator Rufai Sani Hangai declared that governor Bala Ngilari polled 26 votes; Modibbo got 30 votes; Marcus, 33 votes; Tukur, 25 votes and Kama 3 votes, while there 2 invalid votes.

The National Leadership of the PDP was on Friday forced to relocate the conduct of the Adamawa State primaries where its candidates for the 2015 general elections would emerge to the nation’s Capital city, Abuja, following the continued security challenges posed by the Boko Haram insurgency in the North East.

Governor James Bala Ngilari and his supporters who snubbed the primaries described it as illegal and flagrant disregard of a subsisting court order by a competent court of law.

Chairman, Adamawa State Chapter of the PDP, Chief Joel Madaki however boasted that they would conduct the primary election in Yola, the state capital, dismissing the one held in Abuja as illegal.