Frontline Rivers State APC chieftain and distinguished Rivers lawyer, Chief Barr. Dumo Lulu-Briggs has hailed the recent endorsement of President Muhammadu Buhari, by the Adamawa state chapter of the Alhaji Abubakar Atiku support group, describing the move as a clear signal that Nigerians appreciated the steady but qualitative leadership of President Muhammadu Buhari.

Fielding questions on this latest development at the Port Harcourt International Airport on Sunday, 23rd of October, Chief Lulu-Briggs declared that by endorsing Presudent Buhari, the Atiku supporters and all other Nigerians at the meeting have endorsed development and national integrity.

Chief Lulu-Briggs made the disclosure while responding to the widely reported news that prominent supporters of former Vice President, Atiku Abubakar and some Stakeholders in the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Adamawa State, had passed a vote of confidence on President Muhammadu Buhari and Governor Muhammadu Jibrila Bindow of Adamawa State, urging them to run for a second term.

The endorsement had been made at a stakeholders’ meeting in Yola, the capital of Adamawa state, in a meeting that was attended by major political gladiators, comprising of party elders, members of the National and State Assemblies, elected council chairmen and party executives at all levels in the state.

Speaking further, Chief Lulu-Briggs noted that, “Like it or not, President Muhammadu Buhari is a blessing to Nigeria. I like his sense of judgement and soft but firm wisdom driven approach to governance. The problem is that people ignore the deeper things and pay attention to the less important. The president is succeeding in reshaping our thinking that has for long made us less industrious. Productivity is taking over from intellectual laziness, creativity is taking over from servitude; self reliance is becoming our culture,” he noted with emphasis.

The Rivers born business mogul also averred that, “Apart from ideological development, the Buhari led administration is currently embarking on huge infrastructural revamping. Rail lines are being constructed to connect all the 36 states. He has achieved a lot in security and is not relenting. I believe he has the industrial consciousness that is required for the advancement of the nation. I hope that this endorsement in Adamawa state will be replicated soon in other states,” he said.

Chief Dumo Lulu-Briggs equally concurred with the views of Alhaji Abdulrahman Abba-Jimeta, the chairman of the meeting on behalf of the state Governor, who had noted that Adamawa state was interested in seeing that Buhari gets re-elected to fully deliver on his transformation agenda, even as he had added that the progress so far recorded in the war on terror, corruption and infrastructure development at state and national levels are commendable, stressing that Buhari and Osinbajo remain their choice for 2019.

The Adamawa meeting, which had endorsed President Buhari, also had in attendance the Deputy Speaker of the State Assembly , Hon. Emmanuel Tsamdu who spoke on behalf of Senators, House of Representatives members and the Adamawa State House of Assembly members respectively said they were okay with the resolutions reached by the stakeholders and would work towards their actualisation.

The meeting, according to reports, equally indicated that former Vice President Atiku Abubakar was represented by Yakubu Tsala who called for unity in the APC party , even as he had stressed the need for elective office holders to deliver more dividends of democracy to the electorate.

Uche Woke E.

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