{"id":30908,"date":"2014-09-05T11:12:41","date_gmt":"2014-09-05T10:12:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/?p=30908"},"modified":"2014-09-05T14:23:25","modified_gmt":"2014-09-05T13:23:25","slug":"ribadu-six-others-withdraw-adamawa-governorship-election","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/exclusive\/ribadu-six-others-withdraw-adamawa-governorship-election\/","title":{"rendered":"Ribadu, Seven Others Withdraw From Adamawa Governorship Election"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"main\" style=\"color: #000000;\">\n<div id=\"paneshell\">\n<div id=\"shellcontent\" class=\" no-tabs\">\n<div id=\"shellinner\">\n<div id=\"yui_3_16_0_1_1409908727020_25874\" class=\"tab-content\" data-tid=\"yui_3_16_0_1_1409908727020_25848\" data-title=\"Top News\">\n<div id=\"yui_3_16_0_1_1409908727020_25880\" class=\"messagepane basepane \" style=\"color: #000000;\" tabindex=\"0\" title=\"Message pane\">\n<div id=\"yui_3_16_0_1_1409908727020_25876\" class=\"message content\">\n<div id=\"yui_3_16_0_1_1409908727020_25975\" class=\"base-card \">\n<div id=\"yui_3_16_0_1_1409908727020_26009\" class=\"base-card-body\">\n<div id=\"yui_3_16_0_1_1409908727020_25976\" class=\"msg-body inner  undoreset\" style=\"text-align: justify;\" tabindex=\"0\">Former Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC),\u00a0Mallam Nuhu Ribadu and seven others have withdrawn from contesting tomorrow\u00a0ruling PDP primary for the Saturday, October 11, 2014 Adamawa governorship\u00a0bye election.Others who withdrew from the race include: Auwal Tukur; Aliyu Idi Hong,\u00a0Andrawus Sawa; James Barka;\u00a0 Gen. Aliyu Kama; Markus Gundiri and Abubakar\u00a0Girei.Ribadu who was granted waiver last Friday alongside two other aspirants to\u00a0contest the primary announced his withdrawal after a closed door meeting<br \/>\nwith President Goodluck Jonathan last night in Abuja.<\/div>\n<div class=\"msg-body inner  undoreset\" style=\"text-align: justify;\" tabindex=\"0\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"msg-body inner  undoreset\" style=\"text-align: justify;\" tabindex=\"0\">Those who will take part in the Governorship primaries scheduled for\u00a0Saturday are: Former Political Adviser to President Jonathan,\u00a0 Ahmed<br \/>\nGulak; former Military administrator of Lagos state,\u00a0 Buba Marwa, Ahmed\u00a0Modibbo, Dr. Umar Ardo, Acting Governor Umaru Fintiri, and Jerry Kumdisi.<\/div>\n<div class=\"msg-body inner  undoreset\" style=\"text-align: justify;\" tabindex=\"0\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"msg-body inner  undoreset\" style=\"text-align: justify;\" tabindex=\"0\">Under the new arrangement only those who stepped down are eligible to contest for the 2015 Governorship election according to an agreement<\/div>\n<div class=\"msg-body inner  undoreset\" style=\"text-align: justify;\" tabindex=\"0\">reached at the meeting with Senate President David Mark at the\u00a0Presidential Villa with all the aspirants.<\/div>\n<div class=\"base-card-clear\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"yui_3_16_0_1_1409908727020_26095\" class=\"base-card-footer\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"slot_N\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"boss-env css-env\" style=\"color: #000000; text-align: justify;\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"boss-help x-large\" style=\"color: #000000; text-align: justify;\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"boss-passive preview-toggle icon icon-grid-layout\" style=\"color: #000000; text-align: justify;\" title=\"Show or hide Previews\"><\/div>\n<div id=\"yui_3_16_0_1_1409908727020_1144\" class=\"attribution-bar themes-opened boss-hide\" style=\"color: #000000; text-align: justify;\"><\/div>\n<div id=\"slot_RS\" style=\"color: #000000; text-align: justify;\"><\/div>\n<div id=\"slot_RS2\" style=\"color: #000000; text-align: justify;\"><\/div>\n<div id=\"slot_FSRVY\" style=\"color: #000000; text-align: justify;\"><\/div>\n<div id=\"yui3-css-stamp\" style=\"color: #000000; text-align: justify;\"><\/div>\n<div id=\"mobilizer\" class=\"mobilizer-in-nav\" style=\"color: #000000; text-align: justify;\"><\/div>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Related Posts generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC),\u00a0Mallam Nuhu Ribadu and seven others have withdrawn from contesting tomorrow\u00a0ruling PDP primary for the Saturday, October 11, 2014 Adamawa governorship\u00a0bye&hellip;<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Related Posts generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":30924,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30908","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-exclusive"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.8 - 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