Adamawa youths decry campaigns against Maina

Written by Abbas Jimoh Friday, 24 June 2011 00:00

Adamawa youths under the auspices of Brain one Global Youth Initiative has condemned report suggesting that former president of the National Council for Women Societies and Adamawa State ministerial nominee, Hajiya Zainab Maina may have met a brick wall regarding her clearance by security agencies.

Secretary General of the youths, Alhassan Mustapha, told newsmen in Abuja that such report saying Hajiya Maina faces a herculean task in becoming a minister due to her being over 70 years is in bad taste, malicious and a fabrication aimed at stopping her ministerial bid and for her opponents to gain undue advantage in their own ministerial aspiration.
“The reports claimed she was over 70 years but in real sense, she is just above 60 having been born in 1948. In any case, her track record of achievements speaks volume as apart from the public offices she has held and excellently discharged, she is the only female member of the PDP Board of Trustees and a real asset to the PDP as could be testified in her capability in mobilizing the women folk.
“Her exceptional contributions to the Vision 2010 Committee and her subsequent presiding over the affairs of the National Council for Women Societies in Nigeria sets her apart as a political leader whose leadership qualities should be brought to bear on the Federal Executive Council,” Mustapha said.
He said Adamawa’s case had become a source of concern to it as some politicians in the bid to have the edge have resorted to all manner of falsehood and name dropping in the PDP, saying that despite the reports, she would scale security screening as the youths and entire people of Adamawa State were behind her.
He said: “It is high time politicians looked at federal appointments as the last resort. It is only proper that people are rotated to contribute their quota and nobody arrogates to himself a sense of indispensability.

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