Leadership (Abuja)
Chibuzo Ukaibe
15 November 2009
Abuja — Youths in the Mubi South senatorial district of Adamawa State have called on the people of the area to prepare to snatch the senatorial mandate handed over to Senator Muhammed Mana come 2011 before the senatorial district becomes among the most backward in the land.
A youth leader, Mustafa Wuro Iya made the call when his group met business man and philanthropist Alhaji Muhammed Bindo Jibrilla at a business forum in Mokwa area of Mubi town yesterday.
Bindo Jibrilla has been called upon by several youth organizations, at every turn in the senatorial district, to throw his hat in the fray and unseat Mana who they said has performed well below expectation in the green chamber of the national assembly.
Although the occasion was a business roundtable to boost small and medium scale businesses in the area, the youths of the senatorial district took the liberty to turn the discussion to the worrying senatorial neglect that Mana introduced to the situation and express their dismay with the representation they are getting from the former military governor of Plateau State.
But Bindo Jibrilla who was at the forum to further galvanize the youths to emulate his entrepreneurial endowment, was mum over whether or not he would heed the call by the youths, participants at the forum refuse to leave without stating their displeasure with Senator Mana.
Discussing the potentials of the senatorial district, the very popular but defeated national assembly candidate in the 2007 election, Umaru Jarengol said Mubi would rise to its highest potential if the likes of Bindo listened to their peers and took the challenge.
He said "politics is now in the hands of the youths, whether people like it or not. People like Jibril Aminu and Grace Bent might be performing well as things stand in the senate, but where any person falls short of the electorates expectations, he should be replaced immediately by new and vibrant ideas as represented by the younger generation," adding that, "in the case of Senator Mana, the need for both a paradigm and generational shift have become very imperative".
Jarengol said "Gyella in Mubi-south lacks water and Kwaja in the same senatorial district is crying for manufacturers' attention. Kwaja would have fed the whole of east Africa with its giant Irish-potatoes specie. They are reputed to be among the best in the world".
Another neglected area according to Joshua Kobis Lamorde, a speaker who took on Senator Mana as if he were at the venue of the meeting is Madagali.
Addressing Mana, Lamorde noted, "we had a lot of hope that your experience as a former governor would come to bear on this senatorial district. But you have failed your people, particularly we the people of Madagali who have the potential to raise the standard of living of this area. I am disappointed."
Bindo who nevertheless refused to comment on the politics of the area however disclosed that he was worried by the unemployment figures in the area and the state as a whole.
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