The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) screening panel on Saturday, Auguts 30, 2014 disqualified the acting governor of Adamawa state, Umaru Fintiri from contesting in the Saturday, October 11, 2014 by-election in the state.
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Chairman of the 5-man screening panel and former senate deputy president, Ibrahim Mantu, who spoke too newsmen at the PDP national secretariat after the Saturday, August 30, 2014 screening exercise said Fintiri was disqualified on what he termed “moral grounds”
Heading into the screening, Fintiri had already received considerable chiding over his decision to contest in the election to replace Nyako whose removal he spearheaded, with other candidates pointing accusing fingers in his direction for plotting a “coup” and lacking the moral right to vie for the office.
Loyalists of the erstwhile governor, Nyako had earlier vowed to present evidence that Fintiri had decamped to the opposition All Progressives Congress (APC).
