By Ikechukwu Okaforadi
The Youths of the All Progressive Congress (APC) in Bauchi State has enjoined the party not to reward but sanction those it alleged were involved in gross anti party activities during the 2023 general election in the State.
A petition signed by Mohammed Maikano Abdullahi, who is Bauchi State APC secretary, and addressed to the National Chairman of the party, Abdullahi Adamu, the Youth group said during the 2023 election in Bauchi, the party stakeholders whom they said were supposed to work for the APC candidates, stayed away and worked against the party.
The petition tiled ‘Shameful Display of Greed by some APC anti-party bigots in Bauchi State’, said it saw a shocking pictures of the Minister of Education, Mallam Adamu Adamu and a group of people claiming to be stakeholders of the 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”, the petition reads in part.
The Youths of the All Progressive Congress (APC) in Bauchi State said it wrote the petition to the National Working Committee of APC based on what it considered a very unfortunate situation that is unraveling in the state.
“In Bauchi state, we believe that there were people who were supposed 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”, the group claimed
It therefore expressed the belief that the current leadership has been compromised and they engaged in anti-party activities during the elections that led to the disappointing results recorded 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 would 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.
“Anti-Party activities are a crime to the Party, and should not be condoned especially when it is coming from people who are supposed 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 to 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.”
