Opinion: At the moment, Binani cannot latch onto any loopholes to use as campaign tools against Fintiri.

The elections are a few weeks away, and destiny beckons. Adamawa can win. Adamawa will win if we elect the candidate who has shown a personal example of leadership, who has shown preparedness, demonstrated competence, expansiveness, and character, and who has put forward a clear and plausible plan for the development of the state.

2023 is a defining year to either continue to be part of greatness or return to the dark ages of Shila brandishing knives and cutlasses on the streets of Yola. The people will decide our fate. Adamawa People will decide whether to retreat to the years of the locusts, where public funds were magicked away from the state; where impunity ruled over the land; where there was a lack of accountability; where civil servants are being owed their entitlements; where lies were the language of the establishment, and where deceit was poetry, or to continue to advance on the trajectory of financial discipline, diligent resource allocation, and colossal infrastructural development.

We will decide whether to return to “governance Sobibor” or to soldier on to a future of greater possibilities. 2023 can be ours. Challenges are expected, but we can win. In our hands is the power to forge our own destiny, and determine the trajectory of Adamawa State in the next few years. Yes, we wield that inexorable power to shape or impair Adamawa. But we have to get to Adamawa. We must apply this cosmic power responsibly—not to serve personal ends but to preserve our collective interest as Adamawa citizens.

Good governance is heterogeneous, and so is bad governance. We are potential victims or winners, depending on our choice in March 2023.

The elections are a few weeks away, and destiny beckons. Adamawa can win. Fintiri will win if we re-elect him as he has shown a personal example of leadership, has shown preparedness, demonstrated competence, expansiveness, and character, and has put forward a clear and plausible plan for the development of the state.

I have studied the plans of the leading governorship candidates. I have listened to their stump speeches and followed their pristine thoughts. One candidate stands out, and that is Ahmadu Umaru Fintiri. I say this with all sincerity. I look into the future and see promise for Adamawa with Fintiri as governor beyond 2023.

As I said in the column, ‘We need the Adamawa dream and identity,” so inspiring citizens to dream the Adamawa dream through deliberate policies and good governance, should be a priority of the next leadership. Adamawa needs corrective leadership in 2023. No government has it all figured out. Progressive leadership is corrective leadership. It is important that Fintiri consolidates the achievements and makes adjustments where necessary.

I believe that in Umaru Fintiri resides the courage to inspire citizens to dream the Adamawa dream of hope, unity, mass prosperity, and self-actualization.

Recently, the APC governorship candidate made an incoherent statement during the flag-off campaign in Yola, as she spoke with her shaky voice about paying gratuities if elected as governor and also providing jobs for the youth. what many will consider a political suicide attempt.

in my humble opinion, no Admawa workers have complained about pension or gratuity within the last three years till this now, as for the job she is promising the youths, one may be tempted to ask her how many Adamawa youths has she been able to felicitate their appointments at the federal level? If Binani can’t give jobs to young people as a senator, she won’t be able to do so as governor.

The honesty, courage, and forthrightness exemplified by Fintiri in this instance are infectious. He did not dilly-dally or play around with the critical issue of political chicanery; he made a firm statement and asked Adamawa to hold him to his word.

Adamawa needs a leader with the mettle to take tough decisions for the greater good. I believe Fintiri is that leader.