From Umar Dankano, Yola
The Organizing Secretary of the All Progressives Congress, APC, Adamawa state chapter, Hon.Mustapha Ribadu has empowered 500 students and residents of Dodore Community in Bako ward in Yola South local government area in the state.
Flagging off the empowerment program in Yola weekend, Ribadu told the beneficiaries that the gesture was meant to reciprocate a good turn back to the society for being favourable to him.
Ribadu said that the intervention coincide with the celebration of his 45th birthday, stressing that out of the total number of the beneficiaries, 250 are students who were supported with fund under his scholarship scheme while 250 residents of Dodore especially women were empowered to cushion the hardship in the land.
“This gesture is a move to give back to the community that has been so magnanimous to me. Although l am beginning this journey from my immediate community. It is a gesture that is intended to cover every community of our dear state.
” Today I’m marking my 45 birthday and I decided to celebrate with my people especially the community of Dodore in Bako ward in Yola South.
“I will soon launch a scholarship program that will cover the whole state coming from academic background myself. I wish to live long to extend it from Bako ward to Yola South and to the whole state,” he said.
