After just one year, Rt. Hon. Ahmadu Umaru Fintiri is walking the talk. He has touched Adamawa in diverse ways, despite myriad of challenges; economic, security, political, social, and many more.
The fact sheet which has been unfolded a year after has shown some unassailable truths that can never be swept away. As Sir Winston Churchill, former British Prime Minister said; “Truth is incontrovertible. Ignorance may deride it, panic may resent it, malice may destroy it, but there it is.”
The Governor and his team are steadily and painstakingly retooling Adamawa. Out of sheer and deliberate ignorance, some people deride it, saying we see nothing, we hear nothing. Yes. When you have become deliberately blind, you can see nothing, even when it is thrust before your very eyes. You won’t see it. When you have become willfully deaf, when it is noised to your hearing daily, you won’t hear.
Some other people do theirs out of panic. Shall it be said that what Napoleon couldn’t do, has been done by that simple, unassuming man from Madagali? Can anything good come out of Nazareth? Madagali of all places. That small place. Not a man from a major city. And he wants to be recorded in history as the man who turned Adamawa right side up. They resent it out of panic.
Yet some others operate out of malice. He is not of my ethnic stock. Nor of my religion, language, political party. Why must Adamawa work under him? It won’t happen. We won’t see anything, nor hear anything. In fact, he is doing nothing. The State is even worse off than he met it one year ago.
There is a quote often attributed to John Adams, a former American President, though some people claim it was not original to him. It goes thus: “Facts are stubborn things; and whatever may be our wishes, our inclinations, or the dictates of our passions, they cannot alter the state of facts and evidence.”
One year ago, thousands celebrated the victory of Rt. Hon. Ahmadu Umaru Fintiri who defeated the incumbent Governor in a fierce encounter at the 2019 General Election.
Governor Fintiri in less than a year in office has been inspiring and has impacted positively on the lives of the people of the state.
