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THE Network of Community Development Associations has described as “divisive” the comments of the All Progressives Congress candidate in Adamawa, Senator Aishatu Dahiru Binani, who allegedly said she will rescue power from the minority tribe occupying the Adamawa state government house, Yola, in a veiled reference to Rt. Hon. Ahmadu Umaru Fintiri, porpotedly a minority who is unfit to govern Adamawa state.

Binani had said, while in the palace of a traditional ruler in Fufore local government, “I will take over the Adamawa government house from that minority man who is currently occupying that seat.”

“I will never support a minority tribe in Adamawa to rule the state.”

But the Network of Community Development Associations , in a statement on Friday signed by its Director of Publicity and Advocacy, Dr Ahmed Baba, said the Adamawa APC’s governorship candidate comments were totally unbecoming of a leader, especially at a time when unity is needed to move the state out of the woods.

The forum said, “We, like other Nigerians, watched the video in which Binani speaks in a manner and language totally unbecoming of a leader at a time when standards of responsibility and decorum should be at their highest levels.”

She was apparently her hatred for smaller minorities.

“Even while making allowances for the established patterns of rhetoric and practise of Binani on inter-communal relations, this latest outburst should be condemned in a most emphatic manner.”

“The context of a politicised environment does not excuse this latest demeaning outing of the senator.” On the contrary, it diverts attention from the latest tragedy of insurgency that has befallen citizens and families in Adamawa State before the advent of the Fintiri administration.
” We are using this forum to advise Binani to drop her ambition or face disgrace in the polls” the group said.

“The Forum will continue to demand that those who are asking for our votes in 2023 show in clear and specific terms how they plan to re-secure all of Adamawa.” Additionally, as Binani eminently demonstrated, she must show how she intends to address harmful profiling and the purposeful exploitation of passions.

“She should avoid the temptation to play to the gallery that, like all Nigerians, is desperate for relief and an end to the killings that pit them against each other and lead them towards unending conflicts.”