President Goodluck Jonathan has said that the royal fathers in Adamawa State helped him and his party, Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), to victory in the just-concluded 2011 general elections.
?“We could not have won in Adamawa if you and your people did not support us,” Jonathan told the Lamido of Adamawa, Alhaji Barkindo Aliyu Mustapha, and
members of the Adamawa Emirate Council on Tuesday night at the Presidential Villa.
The President said he greatly appreciated the support of the Lamido, members of the emirate council and people of Adamawa which gave him and the PDP victory in the state.
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Earlier, the Lamido told the president that he had come with members of his council to thank him for approving their request that the Federal University of Technology, Yola, be renamed Modibbo Adamawa University in honour of the founder of the Adamawa Emirate.
Jonathan said he and the federal government had only done what was right in acceding to their request.
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“We had to do what is right. Honour should be given to whom honour is due. Those who have made history deserve to be immortalized. That is what we have done,” he said.
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