Adamawa State Governor Muhammadu Bindow has denied being pressured to drop Deputy Governor Martins Babale for a Muslim candidate.
Bindow, in a statement by the Commissioner for Information and Strategy, Ahmad Sajoh, described the report as “a blatant lie”.
The statement blamed desperate politicians who had lost relevance of using ethnic and religious sentiments to discredit his administration ahead of the 2019 elections.
It reads: “We know some politicians in Adamawa State who have totally lost political value and relevance and so resorted to using ethnicity and religion as political currencies in the run-up to the 2019 elections.
“What is even worse is that these persons are willing to plunge this state into unending crisis if they are unable to achieve their political goals.
“In their desperation, they are prepared to go any length to score cheap political points. But no level of blackmail, intimidation or ethnic chauvinism and religious bigotry, political jingoism or agbero-journalism will derail us.
“Let those who believe they have what to tell the electorate in 2019 step forward and face us in election using issues and achievements as factors that determine our relative electoral fortunes.”
