Adamawa: Marwa submits form, hopeful of getting PDP waiver

A former Military Administrator of Lagos State, Brig. Gen. Buba Marwa (retd.), on Friday submitted his governorship form to the national leadership of the People’s Democratic Party in Abuja.

Marwa, who was accompanied by a few of his associates, said he was sure of getting the party’s waiver to enable him contest its primary slated for September 6 in Adamawa State.

Before defecting to the ruling party, Marwa was a member of one of the political parties that merged to form the All Progressives Congress.

A former governorship candidate of the defunct Congress for Progressives Change in Adamawa State, Marwa said that since the ruling party allows for waiver as stated in its constitution, there was no cause for alarm.

He told journalists after submitting his form that he was not envisaging any problem and assured his supporters that he would take part in the primary.

Marwa said, “Certainly there is provision of the PDP constitution which says all members who aspire to run for any office whether party’s position or actual government or elective positions, should have spent a minimum of two years failing which they will not be able to run, unless they are granted a waiver of this position.

“I don’t see any great difficulty with this in the sense that during the tenure of the former chairman, Alhaji Bamanga Tukur, you will recall the party structures were dissolved and new congresses were organized for the party and all those new members that defected from the CPC,  spent less than two months and were  deemed qualified to run in the congresses and today they remain in elective positions.

“Nobody asked them for waiver, and none was given, based on that we have full confidence that the issue of waiver will not be an issue, because if it has been done in Adamawa state for others it will be extended.

“In any case, almost everybody in the party will ask for waiver because fresh registration took place at that time and so you will find out almost everybody has spent less than two years in the party.

“I have applied for waiver through the normal processes and I am confident that it will be amicably resolved.”

Asked how he felt about the tricycle that he introduced in Lagos, which is now popularly  called Keke Marwa, he said he hope to also introduced many new things in the state if elected governor.

Marwa who was also a former military administrator of Borno State, vowed to improve the security situation in the state.