Adamawa — As Adamawa state enters the crucial week that will herald the re-run of the State's gubernatorial elections, Former vice president, Atiku Abubakar, has finalised plans to launch his radio station which will go on the air from Wednesday.

The station, which is based at the state capital, Yola, is christened "Radio Gotel", the Fulani word for "Number One Radio".

It is being powered by a 50 kilowatt transmitter, which places it at a par with AM service of FRCN Kaduna, without an equal in the entire North-East geo-political zone and can be picked up with clarity in the Federal Capital Territory. The radio could not have come at a better time for the Action Congress party and its candidate, Ibrahim Bapetel in Adamawa state.

Only last week, the party petitioned the regulator of broadcasting in the country, the National Broadcasting Commission, NBC, alleging that Adamawa Broadcasting Corporation which dovotes 85 percent of their programmes to the PDP and their government in the state, had not only shut the opposition out of their station, but had, in addition declined to accept paid adverts from the AC.