By Tom Garba, Yola

In a town hall meeting today (Saturday) thousands of All Progressives Congress members, including members and supporters met in Yola and vowed to chat a way forward for the gubernatorial ambition of Alh. Umar Mustapha Madawaki (Otumba of Ekiti) is aspiring to be the next Governor of Adamawa state.

The meeting with the theme; "Facing the future together" brought together APC Stakeholders from Yola South, Fofure and Girei had fruitful discussions at Farama Hall in Shagari, Yola-town, Yola-South LGA area of Adamawa state.

In the meeting, people took turns and delivered hopeful and ambitious speeches of winning an election come 2023, to them Umar is the most sellable aspirant in APC.

Madawaska in his speech to the mammoth crowd and APC stakeholders reiterated his decision to run for the seat of the governor was borne out of an arch desire to provide the needed dividends of democracy to the people of Adamawa State.

While seeking their support to enable him to emerge as the APC Flag-bearer in the 2023 Gubernatorial Election, he said if the mandate is given to him, he promised to ensure that the party wax stronger in the State as well as emerging victorious in the coming 2023 general Elections.

"I know and I recognize how important you are to our great party, APC, hence my decision to call for this town hall meeting for us to rob minds on how to take over power from PDP in the State," Umar said

He expresses his readiness, willingness, commitment, and determination to carry everybody along and run an all-inclusive government by God's will if he wins the election in 2023.

A stakeholder, Alh. Sallau Amanda in his speech made a passion to all party leaders in the state and the twenty-one local government areas to unite for the overall goal of winning the election in 2023.

He said this can only be done when party stakeholders are fair to all members and it's only unity of purpose when harps in fair play in whatever the party is doing will guarantee victory.

According to him, Umar is one among many aspirants who come this time will help in bringing the party to the table of Consensus, this is all we are praying for, APC should sit down and give us who to work for in 2023.

"I believe that our party is to beat come 2023, we have all that it takes to win the election," Salla said

In his speech, the APC Chairman of Yola-South LGA, Alhaji Ahmadu Mohammed Mbamoi extolled Otumba's foresight and ingenuity of sponsoring revalidation of voters' cards across the state to all people irrespective of the party divide.

He said this effort by Umar takes only a Leader whose love is for humanity and shows is has a special regard for APC and the people of Adamawa state.

He assured the APC gubernatorial aspirant of unrelenting support whenever he secured the party ticket.

Another APC Stakeholder, Alh. Babalu Hassan said it gladdened his heart for someone from Adamawa Central senatorial zone to declare his intentions for the governorship seat they are looking for for a long period.

He called all people to rally around Umar to see the dream of the Central zone producing a Governor comes true.