The governor of Adamawa state, Hon. Ahmadu Umaru Fintiri, has renamed the popular Abuja Road, one of the major roads in Yola, Yola South local government area of Adamawa state after the late Dr Mahmud Tukur.
The road was renamed during the reign of late Lamido of Adamawa, Aliyu Mustapha as Lamido Sanda Road from Abuja road, but has now been formally renamed in favour of Mahmud Tukur.
The late Tukur was a scholar of high repute, a humanist, a Philanthropist, and a disciplinarian, an elder statesman whose virtues Governor Fintiri remembered and immortalised in a major road in Adamawa state.
The former Minister of Commerce and Industry during the military regime of former President Muhammadu Buhari died in 2021 in his Abuja residence after a meritorious service to the state and the nation.
The town planner of the Adamawa state Urban and Regional Planning Development Board, Mrs. Alice Ambrose, confirmed the renaming of the road after the Bayero University Kano (BUK) former vice-chancellor and said the Abuja road will now be called Dr Mahmud Tukur Road.
She said the late Tukur is one of Adamawa’s illustrious sons who has left a good legacy in the sands of time adding that immobilising him will be one of the ways his legacies will never be forgotten.
She commended Governor Fintiri for remembering a man of Mahmud’s type, adding that such a decision is devine and that his administration will be remembered for good.