Bauchi Speaker Suleiman calls for calm as Court of Appeal order rerun in 10 polling units of Ningi State Constituency 

Speaker, Bauchi State House of Assembly, Rt. Hon. Abubakar Suleiman

By Akanji Alowolodu, Bauchi 

The Court of Appeal siting in Abuja  on Friday set aside the judgement of the Assembly Election Petition Tribunal that affirmed the election of Speaker of Bauchi State House of Assembly, Rt. Hon. Abubakar Y Suleiman as member representing Ningi Central and ordered rerun in ten polling units. 

The Speaker has however urged all his supporters and all people of the Constituency to remain calm and law abiding saying that it is a temporary setback which will soon be corrected.

The Speaker said that although the judgement is unfavourable, as a Muslim, he believes in all fates, thus he accepted the judgement in good faith.

While describing the judgement as minor political setback which is not new in his political career, the Speaker said that he is ever ready for the rerun election to add to the almost two thousand votes margin he gave his opponent.

Rt. Hon. Abubakar Y Suleiman stated that the support and solidarity he has been enjoying in Ningi remain intact and no amount of efforts to pull him down will succeed. 

He added that conducting a rerun in Ten polling units that are his stronghold is just like a walkover, wondering why his opponents insisted on extending their pain of election defeat.

He further said that with the unprecedented infrastructural development initiated by Governor Bala Abdulkadir Muhammad in Ningi Local Government Area, PDP remains unbeatable in Ningi.

The Speaker further said that he will not relent in his efforts to bring dividends of democracy to the people of Ningi Central Constituency not matter how some elements keep trying to pull him down as contained in a statement by Abdul Ahmad Burra, Spokesperson to the Speaker, Bauchi State House of Assembly.