APC GUBER PRIMARY: Throw in The Towel to Avoid Defeat- Kumangar Tells Mustapha

The Director-General Media to Governor Ahmadu Fintiri of Adamawa state has advised APC gubernatorial aspirant in Adamawa Mustpaha alias Otumba to consider throwing in the towel to avoid defeat at the May 2022 guber primary of the All-Progressive Congress.

 

In a statement he signed, the Director-General advised on Wednesday in Yola.

 

The statement was in reaction to a recent statement credited to Mustapha where he claimed to bury Fintiri and the PDP if given his party’s ticket in Adamawa.

 

The Governor’s aide described the statement as shocking and a big slap to leading APC gubernatorial candidates of the opposition in Adamawa, not a rabble-rouser like Mustapha that will be randomly defeated.

 

It is noted that the way Mustapha is ranting has shown that he is alone in his vain struggle to get his party ticket come may. His party daily lost support from prominent opposition party members to the ruling party Adamawa was unbecoming.

 

According to him, even the APC cannot deny that the loss of several serving and forming members of the house of assembly to the PDP is quite massive.

 

“We have nothing but sympathy for “Otumba” because he has lost some of his trusted supporters who have abandoned him to team up with Governor Umaru Fintiri”.

 

“Nothing could be more demoralising than losing prominent members of your party with few days to what is almost certain to be his last attempt to clinch a seat that he had coveted by noise-making and signboard erection since 2019.”

 

We believe that it may be ideal for the self-acclaimed Otumba to pull out of the gubernatorial race to save himself from what is almost certain to be a crushing defeat, “it said.

 

It also said that if any defection was bound to hit APC, it was that of former Minister of health Idi Hong to the PDP, known in the opposition ranks as a “game changer”.

 

Kumangar said that with the recent defection to PDP, there was no clearer message to undecided voters across the state that Fintiri was the better choice.

 

“With Idi Hongs’s decision to dump APC, it is safe to say that PDP’s chance to improve on the thousands of votes it had in 2019 in Hong is sure.

 

The Governor’s aide claimed that Otumba would cry blue murder if he were defeated in less than two weeks from today.