Adamawa Commissioner Counters ACN’s Claims

The Commissioner  for  Information  in Adamawa, Alhaji Abdurrahman Jimeta, has described the Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN)  in Adamawa as “a dead party” that does not know how to mount an opposition to government policies and programmes.

Abdurrahman, who was reacting to ACN’s allegation that the state PDP-led government has not delivered and was living on borrowed time, said the people of Adamawa knew better.

Abdurrahman said the past administration of Boni Haruna, who is now the state’s ACN leader, constructed only 300 classrooms in eight years whereas Governor Murtala Nyako who spent four years had  already built 4,000 classrooms.

“We have awarded contract for the construction of road networks, transformed agriculture through the introduction of commercial agriculture to empower the people, alongside other numerous projects.

“On issues of security and workers’ salaries, ACN is trying to play politics with those issues; everybody knows security is a general problem and that Adamawa is far better in the North East if you talk of security problems.

“Workers’ salaries delay caused by the minimum wage crisis is also not  peculiar to Adamawa,” Abdurrahman said.

The commissioner said that PDP has done well in Adamawa and was confident of landslide victory in the January election.

“From 1999 to date PDP has been winning elections in Adamawa and we are sure of repeating the feat.

“We don’t feel threatened by ACN or any opposition political party. Our fear is from hooligan politicians who want to create disharmony and crisis in the state, and by the grace of God they will not succeed,” Abdurrahman said.