…I remain chairman – Uba Nana fires back
BY ADEYEMI AKANJI, BAUCHI – The leadership crisis that engulfed Bauchi state chapter of the All Progressives Congress (APC) on Wednesday took a new dimension as a faction of the Party announced the dissolution and suspension of the Uba Nana-led State Executive Committee, declaring it illegal.
But in a swift reaction, the “suspended” Chairman of the Bauchi State APC, Uba Ahmed Nana dismissed his purported suspension and expulsion from the Party as “joke of the year, efforts in futility and the imagination of the perpetrators”.
Rabiu Danbaba, who led the group, told journalists at their Secretariat situated at Tirwun along Maiduguri Road, that the present Executive Committee was imposed on the party by former Governor Mohammed Abubakar to enable him achieve his aim of reelection then.
Danbaba said the action taken then which did not go down well with many of the members contributed to the electoral failure of the party in the last general election in the state, lamenting that since that time, the APC has remained in limbo in the State.
Danbaba, who is the Bauchi LGA Chairman of the APC, declared that; “As far as we are concerned, we have dissolved the State Executive Council led by Uba Nana. Aminu Naborno is the State Chairman of the APC in Bauchi state pending the conduct of congress”.
Also speaking, a National delegate of the party representing the state, Ibrahim Ago, said that the Uba Nana-led executives has demonstrated lack of focus, ineptitude and inability to lead the party at a time like this.
He said that the leadership is romancing with the PDP-led administration in the state a development that has weaken the strength of the opposition in the state coupled with lack of direction for the party.
Ago assured that people like him will not allow the party to go into oblivion in the state, saying; “yes, we are in the opposition now and we must exhibit every action of an opposition party in order to have a credible governance in the state”.
As of the time of filing this report, State Chairman of the party purportedly suspended, Uba Ahmed Nana when contacted promised to react to the development at the appropriate time.
However, while reacting to the purported dissolution of the State Executive Council led by him by a group within the party, Uba Ahmed Nana declared; “Nobody has the constitutional right to dissolve an elected Executive without following the due process. We have a constitution in the APC which must be duly applied before such a thing can be done”.
He described those who announced the dissolution as a ‘mere group of failed politicians, who lost out during the party Congress conducted in 2018.
According to him; “They left the APC for somewhere else. As I am talking to you, we are not aware that they are back into the fold of the APC. Maybe that is their own way of trying to come back through the back door”.
He dismissed all the allegations leveled against him and other members of the EXCO saying there is no iota of truth in them but promised that at the appropriate time he will respond to them in details.
He called on all loyal members of the party to disregard any information not originated from the Secretariat of the party just as he urged them to remain loyal and focused, saying that come 2023 the APC will bounce back and take over Bauchi State.
Commenting on the suspension Senator Adamu Bulkachuwa by his ward in Azare, the APC Chairman said that he was not aware of it adding that he called the ward Chairman, who denied issuing the suspension statement.
