The National Gade Youth Assembly
(NGYA), one of the indigenous tribes of the FCT, have gone public with
their support for Usman Jibrin Wowo to contest for the FCT senate seat in next
year’s general elections, going against fellow indigene group the Greater
Gbagyi Development Initiative (GGDI) who have withdrawn their support for the
Senator.
But NGYA’s president, Comrade Baba M.
Sani, told newsmen in Abuja yesterday to disregard a media publication by the
Gbagyi collective titled ‘Indigenes reject Wowo,’ stating that no indigene of
FCT has rejected Senator Wowo’s bid.
Comrade Sani
said that as far as the Gade Youth Assembly is concerned, the Gbagyi group are
on their own, and praised the former senator’s efforts while representing the
FCT during his short stay at the senate.
“The Gbagyi have no mandate that will make
them reject our brother. If they believe that Senator Wowo is not representing
them, we the Gades and other original inhabitants tribes believe that Senator
Wowo will be representing us in 2015,” he said.
NGYI said
that it was a shame that the one the Gbagyis say they recognize is not doing
enough for the FCT.
“When the
women of Gosa village were protesting the evil called demolition of their
ancestral home, what did the greater Gbagyi do about it?” he asked.
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