‘Lack of empowerment programmes cause of drug abuse, thuggery’

A former Adamawa State Governor, Murtala Nyako, has commenced a courtesy tour of the state with a charge on the electorate to vote in 2019 for credible candidates, especially for those who would empower them, as lack of empowerment programmes is responsible for prevailing drug abuse and thuggery perpetuated by youths in the state.

Murtala Nyako whose long convoy spent all of Thursday touring Toungo, Ganye and Jada local government  areas in the southern zone of the state,  said his visit was to thank the people for their support during his administration.

Nyako who governed Adamawa State between 2007 and 2014, said at the palace of Gangwari Ganye, “It is obvious for us to vote into power, credible people who would bring  empowerment and job creation. We must also vote for a government that would provide quality education to our children in the state.”

Earlier, the Gangwari Ganye, Alhaji Umar Adamu Sanda, assured that the state and its people would tap from the wealth of experience of the former governor in view of positions he held in the past. “The state is fortunate to have you as son of the soil. Your track records and wealth of experience will serve as catalog for reference to all,” the Ganye paramount ruler said.

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Nyako who hails from Mayo Belwa, another LGA in southern Adamawa, served in the Nigerian Navy for 30 years, rising to the rank of a vice admiral and becoming the military governor of Niger State from February 1976 to December 1977 and then as Chief of Naval Staff between 1990 and 1992.

Nyako started his Thursday tour from Ganye to Toungo and then to Jada, and had interactions with political stakeholders and his supporters, and  discussed on state and local politics, expressing optimism of better days ahead.

The retired Vice Admiral Murtala Nyako is in the All Progressives Congress (APC), but his son, Sen Abzulazeez Nyako who left the APC to the African Democratic Congress (ADC), is the governorship candidate of the party in the state.