Billy Graham Abel, Yola

Three gubernatorial hopefuls of the All Progressives Congress, APC, in Adamawa have remained in a deadlock over the rescheduling of the primaries in the state.

The impasse has led to both sides in the political divide making their strongest move on the political chessboard as a final rush for the party’s flag for the Thursday rescheduled primaries.

A pro Bindow group, Adamawa youth for change and consolidation, has issued a warning that the party will implode if Modi is imposed on them and it has also threatened that “Modi’s aspiration is not worth the blood of any Adamawa citizen.”

The group said, modi’s candidacy may spell doom for the party and that the imposition will reenact the collapse of PDP in 2015 for the party.

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The spokesman of the group, Medan Kongo while addressing Newsmen in Yola said, it is has become imperative for President Muhammdu Buhari to wade into the matter in order to save the state from festering into an imminent implosion and defeat in 2019 general elections.

Juxtaposition the ongoing event in the party with the events leading to 2015 polls in Rivers state in which federal might was used against the then incumbent governor Rotimi Ameachi leading to a serious political fracas, the group noted that a similar scenario is also evolving in Adamawa state, as anti-Bindow forces are hell bent on imposing Buhari’s in-law on the party.

They said, “As father of the nation and and leader of the All Progressives Congress, we call on you to caution the leadership of our great party, the APC not to be allowing itself to be used by some self-centred and over ambitious people at the detriment of our great party.

“We frown at the behaviour and impunity of Mr. Halilu Modi who threatens to call Abuja and postponed the primary which was on-going after the accreditation of delegates.

“Modi made good the threat by calling the national chairman of APC ordering him to postpone the election immediately after the NWC of APC falls into the prey of Modi antics. If not the governor was at hand to calm the delegates, the entire exercise would have ended in fracas.

“We want to tell the national chairman of the APC that winning the primaries does not mean winning the general election.

“I want to make it clear that if Modi is imposed, the tenure of APC will come to an end.”

However, the Nuhu Ribadu led side of the party has commended with the Adams Ashiohmole led NWC for the decision to move the primaries to Thursday and to reverse the mode of primaries from indirect to direct.

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Ribadu had on the eve of the primaries withdrew from the contest faulting the congresses as already a compromised system and for the decision to hold primaries by indirect mode against the wishes of the other stakeholders in the party.

Salisu Bawuro, the director General, Nuhu Ribadu campaign organization said, “The Ribadu campaign organisation is satisfied with the decision taken by the party’s national headquarters on the cancelation and rescheduling of the governorship primaries in the state.

“Now that the national headquarters had intervened to correct the abnormalities surrounding the Sunday’s unsuccessful primaries, Malam Nuhu Ribadu will be in full contest now that it is the direct primaries.”

Heading into the party’s primaries, the Babachir’s side of the party had contested that they were schemed out of the Congress processes and that the congresses were not held, the primaries fallout is undoubtedly an extension of the infighting that the party would have to address heading into the 2019 elections.