…We’ve lost it out and lost confidence in the present administration under Governor Ahmadu Umaru Fintiri. We the Fintiri Ambassadors are now dumping PDP, we will be migrating our loyalty to Otumba and the Labour Party…
The Otumba tsunami that was reported to have swept 700 members of the NNPP in Yola South local government of Adamawa state alone is reported to have visited PDP, the ruling party in the state. A poet fittingly coins the development as “OTUMBANATION OF POLITICAL PARTIES”.
Even when Otumba himself has said, he or the LP was yet to start any political activity; no jingles, no fliers, no any billboard and/or media engagement.
According to a viral report, no fewer than 23,000 members of Fintiri support group, also known as Fintiri ambassadors have put final touches to dump the ruling People’s Democratic Party (PDP) for Labor Party (LP) in Adamawa State.
Making the disclosure, Mohammed Tijjani Raji, the state coordinator of the Fintiri Ambassadors said their decision was a fall out of dearth of political patronage and reward system.
According to him, the Fintiri Ambassadors is a group formed to take the fresh air movement as a theology to proselytize and to campaign for Fintiri ahead of 2023.
Raji stated however that it would be an unsuccessful propaganda propagating about fresh air when the support group members are literally suffocating occasioned by myriads of failed promises and lack of reward system.
“Fintiri has failed many party loyalists and stalwarts who have paved the way for him to become the governor,” he said.
Raji revealed that the group has rigorously worked for Fintiri in 2019 with assurances that she would be supported by the governor having achieved victory
However, to the groups dismay, after accomplishing their mission, all the promises made by the governor remain marriage term with mirage.
Tijjani with the group’s Public Relations Officer, Mohammed Bello Yarima, and the Organizing Secretary of the group, Mohammed Adams revealed that the Fintiri Ambassadors as a group has at least one thousand five hundred members in each of the 21 local government areas of Adamawa state.
Though the group noted that there are unrepentant, chronic PDP members who might not join the mass Exodus, over 23,000 members would however soon announce their loyalty to LP, they considered as the party to beat in Adamawa State come 2023,
Mohammed said their decision to join LP was after intense research and analysis of the present political situation of the state adding that they discover that Labour Party is the winning party in the coming 2023 governorship election.
He said that LP has gained traction and acceptability as a result of the Governorship candidate they are having in the person of Mallam Mustapha Umar Madawaki, a.k.a Otumba of Ekiti
He lamented that their labour and investment in bringing Fintiri was a vainglorious exercise since the governor decided to ditch them after victory.
“We used our hard-earned money and resources to bring the governor to power but he turned his back against us the moment he won the election,” he said.
While praising the LP gubernatorial candidate, Raji said Otumba is a man of his words at all times. One can take his words to the market, if he says a thing he lives by it.
“We decided to join Labour Party because of the person involved, he is an intellectual that Adamawa will be glad to have. He is knowledge-based, erudite with leadership skills that can liberate our state.
“We’ve lost it out and lost confidence in the present administration under Governor Ahmadu Umaru Fintiri.
“We the Fintiri Ambassadors are now dumping PDP, we will be migrating our loyalty to Otumba and the Labour Party.
“We will double what we were doing for Fintiri for Otumba in many folds, we are tired of being subservients to a man that does not cherish our loyalty and support.
“Despite our loyalty to him for many years, none of us can boast of anything tangible, we served him and nothing in return we are paid for. This is one of the many reasons we are leaving him, the PDP for Labor Party,” Raji said.
Raji confirmed that the Labour party officials in the state are preparing to receive them as bonafide party members at an agreed date.
Mr Hamza Madagali, the organizing secretary of PDP has however called the bluff of the Fintiri ambassadors saying it is an amorphous and non existent group.
According to him if they are important, their impact would have been felt in the state.
He said Governor Ahmadu would win election again and again in the state because of the confidence and trust the people have in him.
Madagali said even the blind, the dumb and the deaf can testify that Fintiri has fulfilled his covenant with the people and has served them diligently.
“The election of 2023 is a matter of performance and non performance, it’s not a gimmick or propaganda. It’s a display of a scorecard of what one has done. Thanks to Almighty God, PDP under Governor Fintiri has placed Adamawa state on the threshold of development. It’s not noise making, its about delivering the mandate of the people. I think Fintiri has done that,” Hamza said.
He however refuted the existence of 23,000 members who would be leaving PDP for LP.
Doubting the claims of what he said so-called Fintiri Ambassador, Hamza narrated that as a party man who knows how the membership strength of the party, asserted that that group is a bunch of liars who will only want to defraud gullible politicians like Otumba.
An electorate who gave his name as Joseph Tumba lamented that it’s natural for the PDP Organising Secretary to deny that there was Fintiri ambassadors, “what remains undeniably obvious is the disenchantment so many Fintiri apologists are nursing”, he said, recounting the scary debt profile that was never in the history of Adamawa state, the recent economy with the truth about the fertilizer subsidy to be sold to gullible farmers at a price more than how the product is sold at the open market and the obnoxious reopening of 8 skills acquisition centres in the state, when that of Girei local government was the only Centre renovated by the North East Development Commission, NEDC, for which the governor declined to give deserved credit.