By Mustapha Atiku Ribadu
Today marks an important milestone in our great journey to end the scourge that has ravaged Adamawa State and left it prostrate and in comatose.
It also pointedly marked the beginning of the extinction of the PDP behemoth that has caused the people so much pain in the last three years as hope for a new lease of life looms large in the horizon.
Indeed it was heart warming to see thousands of exuberant youths yearning for the dismemberment of PDP in the very heart of Madagali local government, the hometown of Governor Ahmadu Umaru Fintiri following years of disillusionment occasioned by irresponsive leadership.
At first I could not believe my eyes when I sighted tens of thousands of Madagali people who in the face of glaring travesty that the Fintiri led government represented disowned their son with so much passion and animation.
But the poignant reality of their vehement rejection of the government dawned on me when I realized the debilitating socio-economic decay, poverty, lack of social inclusion and most importantly, a huge infrastructure deficit that left a gaping hole in the lives of the hapless residents at a time their son can commandeer life support to them so as to get some form of reprieve and remain afloat.
Indeed life for the people was tragic, short and brutish.
With so much despair, overwhelming poverty, desperation, the reactionary comportment of the people could be understood. Such massive frustration evidently made the people to throng out in their thousands to follow an illustrious son of the soil and a two term chairman of Madagali local government and former chief of staff to governor Bala James Nggilari, Chubado Babbi Tijjani to our great party.
Such desire to leave the ungodly contraption called PDP made the people to abandon all their activities and extend a rousing welcome to us leading to the total shutdown of Madagali local government as activities came to a halt.
The tumultuous crowd that received us right from the entrance of Shuwa town and led us to the headquarters of Madagali local government simply indicated that the PDP in Madagali local government, the hometown of governor Fintiri has been uprooted.
We have since slayed, and interned the monster who has been the bane of progress so that the people can have a breath of real fresh air, which has been in short supply to the people of Madagali local government.
Mustapha Atiku Ribadu is the APC organizing secretary, Adamawa state