By Muazu Abari
Yola
There is a stalemate in the Adamawa state Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) primary for candidates of the State House of Assembly in Adamawa State.
This followed the rejection of the list of delegates sent to the state by the national secretariat of the party by Governor Bala James Ngilari and majority of the stakeholders of the party in the state.
Ngilari told the committee that the list had been doctored and therefore completely unknown to the party in the state, adding that it was in sharp contrast to the authentic list agreed to by all stakeholders of the party in the state.
“When Senator Bala Adamu came all stakeholders agreed that in view of the security challenges the list used for the primary that produced Fintri should be used unless where such delegates have decamped or are dead. Everyone signed on. That is the list. And nobody can force anyone on us,” said an aggrieved party man.
The governor was quoted as having told the committee that the law court already ruled in favour of the 1st November list which was acceptable to stakeholders in the state.
It was gathered that the list of the delegates was tempered with in 15 out of the 21 local government areas of the state, a development that led to a stalemate in the conduct of the party primary for the selection of candidates to contest for the House of Assembly election in 2015.