My re-election will end godfatherism in Adamawa, says gov Bindow

Mohammed Bindow, governor of Adamawa, says his re-election would end “the politics of godfatherism in the state”.

Bindow said this while addressing delegates of the All Progressives Congress (APC) and party executives from the state central senatorial district.

According to NAN, the district has seven local government areas comprising Hong, Gombi, Song, Girei, Yola North, Yola South and Fofore.

The governor recalled that the same delegates he was addressing voted for him during the 2014 primaries “without the influence of money bags”.

Bindow said he’s optimistic that the delegates would repeat the same gesture in the forthcoming primary elections in the state.

He said that his administration will continue to empower the people whom he alleged, had been neglected by the political elite in the state.

“The masses made me governor and the same masses remain the people I can still rely on,” he said.

“To us, we do not have any godfather from anywhere and the era of godfatherism is gone in Adamawa.

“Let the people decide who will govern them and not some few money bags who should decide who governs the state. Our sin is because we have refused to share the meagre state resources to them.

“I want to assure you that we will continue to work for the masses and not to work for the interest of the few; they have confessed that we have worked but their grouse is that of not giving returns to them.”

He urged the delegates to vote for continuity and for his administration to complete and consolidate the ongoing projects and programmes.