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Ambassador Yusuf Maitama Tuggar
By Akanji Alowolodu, Bauchi
Nigeria Ambassador to Germany, Yusuf Maitama Tuggar has declared that his preference was more inclined towards an election where everybody gets to vote lamenting however that “but, unfortunately, my party, out of its wisdom, opted for consensus. I am satisfied with it”.
He said that, “For me personally, consensus is not my first choice. I am coming from the background of opposition. We had direct primaries in ANPP and CPC. And now I am in APC. I have to do what was directed to be done”.
Maitama Tuggar who is aspiring to contest the gubernatorial election come 2023 said that the All Progressives Congress (APC) does not require much to reclaim Bauchi State from the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP)-led government in 2023.
He stated this while interacting with reporters on Sunday in Bauchi in his reaction to the conduct of the LG Congresses held on Saturday, saying, “I don’t think it requires much of an effort given the poor performance of the PDP at the state level.”
He stressed that, “It will not require much of an effort for the party to topple the PDP in Bauchi State owing to the poor performances of Governor Bala Abdulkadir Mohammed”.
He further said that it behooves on the APC’s stakeholders in Abuja from Bauchi State to do the needful in line with the true ideals of the party, particularly at the grassroots level.
“We have to go back to the basics. We have to go back to what we were doing in the past, which is grassroots politics which is also geared towards ensuring fairness and equity in our processes, internal democracy and ensuring that people are feeling the impact of governance directly”, He added.
According to him, “It is incumbent on us who are at the center of the APC government to do the needful for people to know that APC is truly a progressive party,”.
Maitama Tuggar expressed satisfaction over the processes and smooth conduct of the election of the officials of the All Progressives Congress, APC in Gamawa local government area of Bauchi State.
He said that because of the transparency of the process of the election, Gamawa people trooped out en masse to be part of the congress as though it was a general election.
“The crowd in Gamawa was very huge. It was like a general election. It went very well. All the eleven federal Wards were represented. It was done under the supervision of INEC, the police and other security agencies”, He said.
He further said that, “People were generally happy with the outcome because there was a change of leadership in the local government which might not necessarily be what went on in other local governments of the state”.
He also said that the APC in Gamawa local government took all the necessary strategies to avert the reoccurrence that caused the party member representing Gamawa Constituency in the Bauchi State House of Assembly.
“The change was informed by some of the setbacks we suffered in the recent general elections in the state. In 2019, we had a PDP governor, not APC”, he stressed .
“In my local government area, in particular, the state House of Assembly member who had defected in the first place from PDP to APC left APC to go back to PDP. These were parts of the reasons that informed the desire to have some changes in the party leadership,” Ambassador Tuggar explained.
Ambassador Tuggar explained that APC members in Gamawa local government elected the LG’s party officials through consensus saying that there was not any rancor among stakeholders of the party in the local government over the choice of consensus as provided for in the party’s constitution.
He said that his political antecedents over the years convinced him to prefer an election to a consensus as a method of deciding party leadership.
