I’m still in race for Adamawa APC governorship ticket – Modi

Against a perception to the contrary, a governorship hopeful of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Adamawa State, Dr. Mahmood Halilu Ahmed, more simply knows as Modi, has said he is still in the race for the ticket of the party and will compete in the primary now scheduled for Thursday.

Modi, an in-law to President Muhammadu Buhari, said in a press statement issued by his campaign office in Yola that he remained unperturbed by the antics of his traducers who were troubled by his presence in the race.

He contended that because they could not match him in a fair contest, they resorted to fabricating the rumour that he had stepped down from the race, stressing that he was not only still in the race,  he would win Thursday’s primary and become governor in 2019 to redeem Adamawa.

“No amount of blackmail will extinguish my sole desire to rescue Adamawa people from the snare of hunger, poverty and squalor which has been superimposed on them by a band of predatory leaders who squandered our future as a people.

“I’m not in this contest for my personal gains but for the people of Adamawa and will never surrender to baloneys of a well orchestrated and choreographed campaign of calumny aimed at sullying my character and killing my determination to rescue the good people of Adamawa State,” he said.