A youth group of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Bauchi has blamed the Minister of Education, Mallam Adamu Adamu and the leadership of the state APC as being responsible for the party’s disappointing outing in the last general election in the state.
The group also alerted the national leadership of the party that those responsible for the failure have constituted themselves into leaders of the party and began moves to lobby for positions in the next government.
In a statement signed by the group’s Bauchi state secretary, Mohammed Maikano Abdullahi, the youth group tasked the national leadership not to make the mistake of the past by rewarding those who worked against the party.
They insisted that evidences of their accusations abound and they are ready to present it when the national leadership calls for it at the appropriate time.
The statement reads in part: “In Bauchi state, we believe that there were people who were suppose to either be physically on ground or at least be remotely but directly involved in protecting the interest of the party and those of its candidates during the elections, but alas, neither of these happened. They were not on ground, nor did they even remotely contributed to the conduct of the elections in the state, instead they were (in our opinion) busy working against the interest of the party and its candidates in the state.
“It has come to our notice and we saw shocking pictures of the Minister of Education, Mallam Adamu Adamu and a group of people claiming to be stakeholders of our party in the state visiting the APC National Chairman, Sen. Abdullahi Adamu.
“This group of people in collaboration with the Honorable Minister were the ones that clearly worked against our party’s interests during the last Presidential and Governorship elections and they are seen receiving red carpet reception in Abuja. These are weighty allegations, but we have proof of them and are ready to present them when the time comes.
“Among these people are the Chairman and other members of the Executive of the Party in the state, for which the National Executive has already been approached to dissolve the State Exco and establish an interim committee to run the affairs of the Party until a substantive Executive committee is elected.
“This is because we believe that the current leadership has been compromised and they engaged in anti-party activities during the elections that led to the disappointing results we saw at the elections. The activities of these people gave the opposition the opportunity to engage in many election frauds including but not limited to rigging, ballot box snatching and stuffing and over voting in almost all PUs in the state.
“Mr. Chairman Sir, we will like to bring to your notice that these men who are today lobbying for positions in the next government of our great Party leader Asiwaju Ahmed Tinubu, are the same people who refused to release the logistics funds allocated to the state by National for the elections.
“They are the same people who worked with the opposition PDP to frustrate our Presidential and Governorship candidates because of their selfish ambitions. We have it on good authority that they worked against our governorship candidate based on a twisted believe that another four years of PDP in Bauchi is preferable (for them) because of the plan for one of them to become the next governor after this last tenure of the current administration, rather than having the possibility of an APC win which may last the next 8 years.
“We also have proof of one of them who removed our party’s branding from two vehicles sent for campaigns and donated the vehicles to a PDP Senatorial candidate in the state.
“We also have pictorial evidence to prove that some of them didn’t vote for the APC during the last elections.
They all abandoned the party and her candidates during the elections. They were no where to be found when we went round the state to campaign, but today they are lobbying to be given a place in government.
“Anti-Party activities are a crime to the Party, and should not be condoned especially when it is coming from people who are suppose to be the managers of the affairs of the Party who have been entrusted with its leadership. We urge the National leadership to take this matter with all the seriousness it deserves and not to set a bad precedence by allowing state party leaders engage in anti-party activities and get away with it or worse still get rewarded for it. We call on the National leadership to set a good example by meting out appropriate sanctions on those found to be involved so as to deter others from engaging in similar activities in future in Bauchi or any other state for that matter. Not doing anything about it at this time will mean entrenching anti-party activities as acceptable which will definitely come back to haunt the party in the nearest future.
“Sir, we make these allegations knowing the gravity of them, but we are committed to the continued existence and success of our great Party and any black sheep we identify in the party, we will call them out so that drastic actions are taken to forestall future occurrence. We urge you not to repeat the mistakes of the past by rewarding bad behavior. Those who worked for the party and who share in the vision of our President-Elect deserve to be given the opportunity to serve the country, rather than those who are only interested in government for their personal benefits, and not that of the Party and by extension the people of our dear state and the Nation at large.”
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