A group under the aegis of Bauchi Youths for Good Governance has blamed the Speaker, House of Representatives, Yakubu Dogara, and his supporters for the lingering crisis rocking the ruling party in the state.
The group specifically lashed at Dogara for generating the issues between Governor Muhammed Abdullahi Abubakar of the state and the Speaker’s rivalry gang.
Chairman of the group, Comrade Samaila Sani, during a press briefing said, “We are dismayed by the acts of some disgruntled elements and agents of retrogression who claimed to be the elders and stakeholders of Bauchi state declaring support for Dogara ahead of the 2019 general elections and their Trojan horse and concealed stratagem letter titled, ‘Expression of Solidarity’ to our leader President Muhammadu Buhari.”
Sani said it was unfortunate that, those who were the bane of the development of Bauchi state in the past and had previously drained the state’s treasury for selfish gains, are now under strange marriages of convenience.
He noted that Isa Yuguda from a different political party is ganging up with Dogara and some people whom apart from disrespecting our traditional institution that caused them their traditional titles, have mercilessly conspired to empty the Bauchi state treasury during the last administration that was characterised by elephantine lootings, accrued internal and external debts, and unpaid workers’ salaries in the thick of predicaments they’ve left behind.
“How could Dogara, whose local government was the only one President Buhari lost in the 2015 presidential election out of the 20 we have in the state conspire with PDP to emerge speaker against his party supremacy; boycotted all the APC’s congresses in the state and challenging same in court, boycotted Buhari’s state visit to Bauchi, and aligning himself with the nPDP be a worthy son of the state and help the president as ascribed by the self-acclaimed elders?
“And Governor Abubakar as the true worthy son of Bauchi state had immediately dropped to Bauchi from Abuja where he was attending issues of national importance to assess the level of destruction. President Buhari cut short his busy schedules to visit Bauchi when the windstorm and fire disaster wreaked havoc in the state, killing many and destroying properties worth billions of naira. Where was Dogara, the self-styled worthy son of Bauchi, who hasn’t visited the state up till today?” he queried.
