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The Adamawa State governor, Murtala
Nyako, has told a gathering of party supporters that he will be running
for re-election. He said this at a meeting of the party convened by the
state chapter of the party under the leadership of Minjiyawa Kugama.
Also, Mr Nyako may presently be the sole candidate of the Peoples
Democratic Party. The state party chairman Kugama Minjiyawa declared at
the end of a party meeting held in the state that Mr Nyako is the only
aspirant to have obtained a nomination form from the party secretariat.
Announcing his bid and urging party delegates to support him as he
would be seeking a second term in office, Mr Nyako said he was very
sure of a return to office after the 2011 election.

Mr Nyako who
however is joined in a consolidated suit involving five other state
governors who are contesting the decision of the electoral body to
conduct elections in their states, arguing that their tenure expires on
a later date other than the 2011 election date the electoral wants to
stick by. Mr Nyako told party members that whether the court ruled in
their favor or otherwise, they should be rest assured that he would be
seeking re-election under the party banner.

The state party meeting was
well attended by all the political office holders as well as elected
party members. The state party chairman Mr. Kugama reeled out figures
saying that 135 persons had indicated their interest in contesting for
seats into the state house of assembly, 41 persons for the house of
representative, 15 persons for the senate elections and only one person
for the governorship post.

Controversial aspirants

Mr. Kugama added that all those who got
nomination forms for the governorship race other than the incumbent
obviously did not get it from the state party secretariat and so only
had one aspirant for the office of the governor the incumbent. Among
those seen to have indicated interest for the Adamawa government house
are Aliyu Idi Hong the minister of state foreign affairs; Silas
Zwingina, a former party chairman of the PDP in the state; Joel Madaki
and Buba Marwa, former military governor of Lagos state. Others are Mr.
Nyako’s chief of staff Bello Tukur, and another Nyako aide, Abubakar
Madawaki, the state commissioner of local government and chieftainship
affairs.