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Speaker Abubakar Y. Suleiman
By Akanji Alowolodu, Bauchi
Following his purported removal as Chairman of the Stakeholders of All Progressives Congress (APC) in Ningi Local Government by the Alhaji Uba Nana led Caretaker Committee, Speaker of the Bauchi State House of Assembly and Chairman of the Conference of Speakers of State Legislatures of Nigeria, Abubakar Y. Suleiman has urged his supporters to remain calm and not to take law into their hands.
The Speaker explained that as a loyal party member, he will never allow violation of the Constitution of the party and divisive actions that will bring misfortune and crisis to the party by some born-to-rule elements.
According to him, since his emergence as the Speaker of the State House of Assembly and the number 3 citizen in the State, he has been occupying the position of the Chairman of Stakeholders in the area.
However, just of a sudden, the Local Government Party Chairman called and told him that he has received an instruction from the State Party Secretariat that he has been replaced by Abdullahi Sa’ad Abdulkadir (Baba Iyali) as Chairman of the Ningi Local Government APC Stakeholders.
The Speaker stated that, “I remain the Chairman of Ningi APC Stakeholders, majority of the Critical Stakeholders recognized by the Party Constitution are with me and have already rejected my purported removal” .
He added that, “The Stakeholders are the ones responsible for appointing their Chairman and I am enjoying the full support of virtually all of the them except very few”.
Abubakar Suleiman declared that, “We will conduct the ward congresses and other congresses in conformity with the party’s Constitution and the Guidelines of the congresses.” .
The Speaker also assured the party loyalists in Ningi Local Government that he will not allow anybody to handover the party to an individual whose only asset and connection to Ningi is the political position he fortuitously occupied as contained in a statement by Abdul Ahmad Burra, Spokesperson to the Speaker, Bauchi State House of Assembly.
