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Senator Haliru Dauda
By Akanji Olowolodu, Bauchi
A section of former aspirants in the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Bauchi state under the auspices of ‘Bauchi State House of Assembly Aspirants Forum’ has called on the governorship candidate of the New Nigeria People’s Party (NNPP) and sitting Senator representing Bauchi Central, Sen Halliru Dauda Jika to come back to his former party, the All Progressives Congress (APC).
It will be recalled that the Senator lost the APC governorship primaries and defected to the NNPP to pick the ticket for the 2023 governorship election in the state where he was defeated by Sen Bala Mohammed of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP).
However, the Forum through its Spokesperson, Honourable Abubakar Bello in a press release issued to Journalists on Wednesday, asked the APC stakeholders in the state and nation to prevail on the Senator to come back to ‘his former home’.
According to him, Haliru Jika was among the bigwigs that kept the party lively and formidable in the state but quit aftermath the outcome of the primaries opining that now that elections are over, he needs to rejoin it and strategize ahead of next elections.
According to him, “We call on president-elect and his vice to do everything humanly possible to bring him back to his normal house because without people like him, APC in Bauchi state will remain an opposition party.”
He stated that, “We, the APC State Assembly Aspirants Forum 2023, joined hands to call on him to come back and build the party to avoid relegation. He is the only person who can unite the party members by working with every stakeholder and aspirant that lost election.”
Since the outcome of the last elections, there has been calls on Senator Haliru Dauda Jika to jettison the NNPP and return to the APC where he rightly belongs.
