The immediate past chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Adamawa State, Hamza Bello Madagali, has emerged as the new state chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC).
In readjustments and concessions that produced most of the new APC state executives, the immediate past Secretary of the APC is now the deputy chairman, while the secretary is the former state organising secretary, Mustapha Atiku Ribadu.
The new state publicity secretary is the immediate past PDP publicity secretary, Victor Dogo.
The new executives were announced and sworn in on Saturday evening during the state APC congress convened at the Mahmud Ribadu Square, Yola.
The event was the culmination of a series of internal arrangements proceeding from ward and local government congresses across the state.
The return to prominence of Madagali, a kinsman and friend of Governor Ahmadu Fintiri, is seen as particularly significant, considering that he was viewed by many observers as having lost out completely when he became just another new party member after he defected with Fintiri and the governor’s other loyalists from the PDP to the APC two months ago.
Fintiri, who seemed to have planned Madagali’s re-emergence from earlier on, had apparently paved the way when he facilitated the election of the immediate past APC state chairman, Idris Shuaibu, as the party’s new National Vice Chairman for the North-East.
In his remarks after he was sworn in, Hamza Madagali assured all APC members of fair treatment, whatever their status.
Governor Fintiri, who also spoke, said he, as leader of the APC in the state, would work hard to ensure the success of the party at all levels in the coming round of general elections.
