2023: Michika Youth laments Joseph Ayuba’s (de-polis) wasteful mandate and calls for his withdrawal from the polls.

Youths have lamented the suspended member of the Adamawa state House of Assembly, Jospeh Ayuba’s, eight-year wasteful mandate, saying the best option for him is to apologise and withdraw from next Saturday’s polls as the dark cloud hovering around him due to a lack of quality representation has come to hunt him.

“We are here to call on the All-Progressive Congress to make sure that the people of Michika don’t give another wasteful mandate as they did to the de-polis, which led to his suspension because he jumped from one party to the other,” one of the group’s leaders, Zira Yusuf, told reporters on Tuesday.

Zira stated that the region was tired of being ruled by district heads who are third-class chiefs rather than the Highi people, who, as one of Adamawa’s largest ethnic tribes, deserved a first-class king. This is due to an eight-year campaign by a lobby against Ayuba in the Assembly. There are no bills with the name Ayuba Kwada in the Adamawa State House of Assembly.

He also chastised Jospeh Ayuba for picking fights with the state’s former governor, Mr Bindow, and the current governor, Mr Fintiri, putting the people he represents at odds with the executive.

Jospeh Ayuba, according to Zira, didn’t care how bad things were for the Michika people after they voted in large numbers to keep him in office in 2019.

“We are here to inform the All-Progressive Congress that judgement day is coming up next week, and we expect Kwada and his party to apologise to the people and withdraw from the race before next Saturday,” he added.