Marwa emerges governorship candidate of CPC
Former Nigerian ambassador to South Africa, Buba Marwa was
yesterday presented with the certificate of return as the governorship
candidate of the Congress for Progressive Change (CPC) for Adamawa State.
Mr Marwa, declared winner of the primary elections, polled
23,401 votes to defeat the other aspirants, Mohammadu Jibrilla and Suleiman
Abdullahi who polled 3,904 and 5,505 of the votes cast respectively.
Balami Ayuba, chairman of the CPC panel who monitored the
elections in the state, presented Marwa with the certificate of return.
Mr Marwa said it was a “great risk” staking his personality for
a contest which he entered alone, with neither a structure nor any of his
political supporters.
However, Bappa Waziri, the state chairman of the party
attributed Mr Marwa’s victory to members of the party whom he said knew what
they wanted.
Haste in accepting Marwa
Meanwhile a coalition of youth groups within the CPC have
expressed their dissatisfaction with the haste with which Mr Marwa entered the
party and picked the party’s nomination.
The group, through its spokesperson, Tasiu Mohammed at a press
briefing at the NUJ secretariat in Yola, said they were against the “hasty
manner” Mr Marwa was adopted by the state leadership of the party to contest
the governorship primaries.
“We condemn the party exco for bringing a candidate from the
opposition party two days to the primary elections without availing us of the
candidates manifesto,” they said. The group also alleged the “non-conformity of
the party exco to the guidelines and procedures set for aspirants seeking
nominations under the party platform, that all duly completed nomination forms
for governorship aspirants are to be submitted at least one week before the
congress for the election of such a candidate.
“This kind of people, when elected to power, will go back to their
respective parties where they came from. We are calling on the national
executive of this great party, CPC to look at this matter and find a lasting
solution to this problem.”
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