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Billy Graham Abel, Yola
The Adamawa State Governor-elect, Ahmadu, Umaru Fintiri, has called on all stakeholders in Adamawa to join his government in ensuring that the people of the state are well served, saying that the 2019 governorship election was a referendum for socially-accountable governance in the state.
Fintiri made the remarks on Friday, during a world press briefing in Yola.
He noted that his election was a marching order on reforms and for investment in the future of the state and its people towards securing a better future for the people.
Fintiri said: “Let me begin by expressing my heartfelt appreciation for the trust you, the people of Adamawa State reposed in me by the way you trooped out to vote for your preferred candidate on March 9, 2019, and also in the supplementary elections on March 29, 2019.
“The election has been won and lost; it is now left for all of us to come together and move our dear state forward to the 21st-century trajectory.
“I want to say, what an enormous privilege and honour it is to be trusted with the government of this state and am deeply conscious of this honour and responsibility at this time.
“To our opponents, even though obviously, I profoundly disagree with many of the things they might have said during the cause of this campaign. I thought they showed extraordinary resilience in the face of difficult circumstances.
“I will like to extend hands of fellowship to all the contestants to join me in ensuring that the people of Adamawa State, in particular, are served.
“I will also like to use this medium to call on all Adamawa people to come together in unity of purpose and put behind us the spiteful campaigns that were characterised by fake news and negative profiling and assist us in the discharge of the mandate freely given to us by the electorate – a mandate for reform and investment in the future of our state and its people – and it is also clearly an instruction to deliver on our promises.
“I said in the beginning when we started this journey, win or lose, we will run a race which will make us all proud; I kept my words, and we ran a clean issue-based, on-beat campaigns and I wouldn’t trade that for anything.
“We believe right at the outset, that our campaign would be a referendum between a socially-accountable government and business-as-usual governance.
“We triumphed at the end by the grace of the Almighty Allah and therefore give our special thanks to him who made it possible.
“To those who contributed to this journey no matter how small, please accept my heartfelt gratitude.”
Meanwhile, the Adamawa State governor, Muhammed, Umaru Jibrilla Bindow, has displayed extraordinary sportsmanship by congratulating, the governor-elect, Ahmadu Fintiri, saying he wished the in-coming governor a successful term in office.
Governor Bindow said: “As a Democrat, I cherish democratic norms and values as it is practised in the civilised world.
“In view of the outcome and declaration of the results by INEC, I wish to congratulate the governor-elect, Ahmadu, Umaru Fintiri, over his election as the incoming governor of Adamawa State and wished him a successful tenure.
“My actions as your governor in the last four years were with best intentions and I remain grateful to the people of Adamawa State for the mandate given to me to serve them, and if on the contrary, I take full responsibility.
“I wished Adamawa, a peaceful transition and progress in the years ahead.”
