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Adamu S. Noma, Chairman of APC stakeholders Committee, Bauchi South Senatorial District
By Akanji Alowolodu, Bauchi
National Special Convention Committee Chairman of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC), Mai Mala Buni has been advised in the interest of fairness and justice not to condone imposition of candidates within the party following the conduct of the state congress which has left behind more leadership crisis than before the exercise.
The advice was given by a faction of the APC in Bauchi State believed to be loyal to the Nigeria Ambassador to Germany, Yusuf Maitama Tuggar, which emerged in the recent crisis-ridden congress of the party held in the state on Saturday at the Zaranda hotel during which a factional leadership emerged
In the build up of the congress, Opposing factions loyal to former Speaker of the House of Reps, Barr Yakubu Dogara and Minister of Education Malam Adamu Adamu who is regarded as ‘greenhorn’ politician have been at logger heads following allegations of imposition of party officials to favor their 2023 political aspirations.
With tension boiling in the APC in the state aftermath of the congress, one of the factions has openly warned Mai Mala Buni, who is the Governor of Yobe State and National Chairman of the party to perish the idea of entertaining imposition of candidates by powerful Abuja based politicians if he actually wants to rebuild the party to be able to stand post Muhammadu Buhari who is regarded as the party’s rallying point for now.
The faction while Addressing Journalists on Sunday at the NUJ Secretariat in Bauchi led by the Chairman of the stakeholders Committee from Bauchi South Senatorial District, Adamu S. Noma, appealed to the national leadership of the party to recognize Hon Sanusi Aliyu Kunde, who it claimed was unanimously endorsed by the stakeholders from the state as the next Chairman of the party.
Adamu Noma who was a member of the Bauchi State House of Assembly said that, “Following the decision taken by the Bauchi State Critical stakeholders in a meeting in Abuja on October 14, 2021 at Plot 17, Euphrates Crescent Maitama Abuja, that stakeholders from Bauchi Central Senatorial district should come and produce the next Chairman of the party as a result of failure to reach a consensus in Abuja”.
He further said that, “The stakeholders held a meeting on October 16, 2021 with three aspirants for the position of state Chairman of the party namely Honourable Muhammad Musa Bayero, Hon Ali Ibrahim Dogarai and Dr Auwal Muhammed step down for Hon Sanusi Aliyu Kunde”.
According to him, “As a result of the stakeholders’ pacification and the subsequent step down of other aspirants, stakeholders have unanimously endorsed Hon Sanusi Aliyu Kunde as the next Chairman of the APC”.
Adamu Noma who was accompanied by many other elders of the APC to the press conference said that Sunusi Kunde was the choice of the APC in the state saying the claim that the seven member committee headed by Jibriln Sam never conducted any congress nor returned elected, Babayo Aliyu Misau as Chairman as it is claiming.
He however alleged that the so called congress that returned Babayo Misau as Chairman was done in Abuja and was abnormal as it was against the party guidelines which stated that congress must be conducted anywhere in the state.
“We decided the congress must be held in Bauchi. We fixed October 16, and waited up to 5pm in the evening and no officials came. We went to the office of the party that the congress was not held and informed them that there was no delegate that participated”, he added.
He further said that, “Yesterday, Saturday, (October, 16) being the day of the congress, we deiced to conduct our own congress. The APC in Bauchi State has long been tempered with, so we decided to conduct ours at Zaranda Hotel, Bauchi”.
The group also alleged that member of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) have infiltrated the APC in the state and assured that the new leadership in the state led by Sunusi Aliyu Kunde will bring sanity back to the party.
According to him, “That is why we have taken the mantle of leadership from the other side. This is why we have started afresh. We decided to make a parallel election to show the national Secretariat that we are capable of holding election. There are friends of the PDP among us”.
“We have given all our national lawmakers attention but they are not responding. The leadership of the party has been a challenge for long in the state. We want to make it 100 percent APC and so we call on our members to be loyal. That is why we are having a careful leadership”, he stressed.
He expressed confidence that the current crisis would not affect the fortunes of the party in any way come 2023 saying, “Whatever will be the outcome will favour us and will favour the people of Bauchi State.”
