Governor of Adamawa State, Ahmadu Fintiri, has come under condemnations for his attempt to mock the venue of the All Progressive Congress presidential and governorship rally in Yola, the state capital on Monday.
while the rally, which was attended by President Muhammadu Buhari, was going on, the governor took to his twitter handle to say that the APC was scared of allowing the president and others come to the state only to see his projects
“Scared of having visitors driving in to the city to see projects everywhere, APC decided to hold its rally in a neighbourhood at the outskirts of Yola,” Fintiri wrote on his page on Monday.
Recall that the Governor had earlier denied the use of the Ribadu Square, a much bigger place as the state government said the place was under renovation would not be available for use on the said date January 9th.
The state government was conveyed to the Chief of Staff to the President Prof Agboola Gambari.
However, the state chapter of the party had gone ahead to clear a new site which they called Buhari Square where the rally was held.;
A twitter user, Olatunji Lawal @OlatunjiLawal2 said the governor unwittingly shot himself in the foot with his mockery of the venue.
He tweeted, “Did you authorize this tweet? If you agreed that outskirt of Yola didn’t have laudable projects, what would be the state of rural Adamawa?
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You personally rated yourself low in governance Mr. Governor.”
Another user, @alagakemi, wrote, “Haha! Mr. Governor. You have just thrown yourself and your government under the boss. This is an own goal. If you had not denied APC the use of the original venue, they wouldn’t have moved to area of Yola you failed to develop. You exposed yourself.”
Yet another user, Bolaji Sanni wrote, “I disagreed Mr. Governor ! I’m a regular visitor to Yola – Jimeta particularly, the only place I noticed is good looking with infrastructural touch is Bank road and it’s surrounding. Even in Mubi and the roads that leads to it from Yola, nothing developmental !!!”