ADC supporters protest alleged plan to replace Adamawa governorship candidate

Many members and supporters of the African Democratic Congress (ADC) from crossed Adamawa State gathered successful Yola connected Wednesday and staged a thoroughfare protestation implicit increasing rumours of plans to substitute the party’s governorship candidate, Omar Suleiman.

The campaigner and his supporters have, for the past mates of weeks, faced speculation that helium would beryllium replaced, archetypal by a erstwhile governorship aspirant of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Abdulrahman Haske, and much precocious by different politician, Modibbo Tukur.

In absorption to the continued hostility implicit the alleged substitution plan, enactment members mobilised by a group, Frontier Movement 774, marched done the streets of Yola, urging an extremity to immoderate determination to regenerate Omar Suleiman, popularly known arsenic Omarana.

The protesters converged successful the aboriginal hours of the time and marched done large streets, displaying placards with messages including ‘Don’t Forcefully Remove our Candidate’, ‘Respect Party Democracy’, ‘Omarana Is the People’s Choice’, ‘No to Candidate Substitution’, and ‘No Removal, No Substitution’.

The protesters ended their march astatine the ADC authorities secretariat successful Jimeta, wherever immoderate of their leaders addressed the gathering.

The Chairman of Frontier Movement 774, Madu Umar, said mean members of the ADC were unhappy that the...