By Henry Umoru

ABUJA – BARELY Sixteen hours after it disqualified the acting governor, Ahmadu Umaru Fintiri, from contesting the October 11 gubernatorial bye election in Adamawa State, the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Sunday, made a U-turn, clearing the Acting governor of Adamawa State, Ahmadu Umaru Fintiri to contest the State’s election.

With this clean bill of health, the Acting governor will now join the other thirteen aspirants who were cleared on Saturday for the September 6 primaries where the  party’s candidate will emerge for the October 11 gubernatorial election in  the state.

The PDP reviewed its earlier disqualification by the five-member screening Committee headed by former Deputy Senate President, Senator Ibrahim Mantu.

The PDP appeal panel led by Senator James Manager which sat at the party’s national secretariat for two and a half  hours said section 191(2) of the 1999 constitution which the screening panel relied on  to disqualify Fintiri does not in any way affect his right to contest the bye-election.