A serving member of the House of Representatives representing Misau\/Dambam<\/p>\n
Federal Constituency, of Bauchi State, Honourable Ahmed Yerima, has
\ndeclared that the All Progressive Congress, APC, would lose Bauchi State
\nshould elections be conducted in 2019 because of the arrogance of the
\nState Governor.<\/p>\n
Ahmed, an APC Lawmaker stated this over the weekend in Bauchi while
\naccusing the Governor of the State, Mohammed Abubakar, of running an
\nexclusive government.<\/p>\n
He said the Governor of being insensitive to the protest by civil
\nservants, teachers, pensioners and local government staff over
\nverification and non-payment of salaries and pensions.<\/p>\n
“People came this morning and staged protest to government house which I
\nam a living witness. This is a bad signal to the APC government in the
\ncountry especially in the states where people are running government as a
\npersonal institution<\/p>\n
“Where government is no longer a government of inclusive but exclusive. A
\ngovernment where people have no voice, a government of one man show, so we
\nare about to confront this type of situation but I don’t think we in the
\nAPC will allow government to be running this way, whether they like it or
\nnot they have to change it and get the proper position of accountability
\nand responsibilities where the voice of the stakeholders of APC, the voice
\nof reason. If they refuse people will revolt against us”, Hon Yerima
\nsaid.<\/p>\n
According to him, “we have to look at it from human factor, we have to
\nunderstand that people need to be respected and policies of this
\ngovernment totally neglected the people. This government is arrogant and
\nlack of public consent is the driving force that made the government
\nunpopular”.<\/p>\n
Yerima pointed out that those people that staged the protest or showed
\ntheir anger are not just an opposition of certain individuals but
\nopposition against injustice.<\/p>\n
“Lack of fairness, equity and justice. There are people who worked for
\nthis country for over 35 years and above and have been receiving their
\npensions over those years but unfortunately since the inception of this
\nadministration they have been unable to access their pensions. They
\ninclude local government staff , state government staff and teachers who
\ncould not receive their salaries and benefits but apparently for them,
\nwhat the government of Bauchi State talk about is verification,
\nverification.
\n“About two years ago, the Yuguda Administration did a similar thing. For
\nthe past five months, series of unproductive verification have started
\nagain”, he lamented.<\/p>\n
He stressed that if the governor had any good reason to embark on
\nverification, he should emulate Yobe or Kaduna States where there is
\nongoing verification but salaries were not stopped.<\/p>\n
The Bauchi Rep reiterated that APC will not win Bauchi State governorship
\nelection with the current happenings in the state.<\/p>\n
“If there is going to be election of governorship in the state, I don’t
\nthink if APC government will win with the current situation. First of all,
\nthere is absence of relationship between principal stakeholders and the
\ngovernment, those that spent their times and resources and everything to
\nensure the emergence of APC. But they have no relevance in this
\ngovernment, they cannot advice the government they cannot voice out their
\nopinion, total bickering between different groups just because they
\ncondemned the entire system, there is bad blood between the government and
\nthe governed”.<\/p>\n
“There is total crisis and chaos. The government is facing a real
\nchallenge and APC is in serious crisis because of the way they are ruling
\nthe state, poor running of party, poor system of relationship with
\nprinciple stakeholders and government’, he said<\/p>\n
He charged the governor to be available to people and operate an open door
\npolicy that will touch the lives of people.<\/p>\n
“Because the governor has no direct contact with people, he should
\nunderstand he is vulnerable, we can’t go against the wish of the people,
\npay salaries, pension, run an inclusive government and policies that meet
\nthe objectives of people” he said .<\/p>\n
In a swift response, the Publicity Secretary of All Progressive Congress
\nin Bauchi, Alhaji Auwal Ali Jalla\u00fd, dismissed the accusation saying “It is
\nunfortunate that a genuine APC member could utter this statement against
\nthe APC leadership and the present administration in the state”.<\/p>\n
Jalla said “It is the Hon Member, Ahmed whose people from his constituency
\nand the party leadership don’t have access \u00fdto. It is just a case of pot
\ncalling kettle black”.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
A serving member of the House of Representatives representing Misau\/Dambam Federal Constituency, of Bauchi State, Honourable Ahmed Yerima, has declared that the All Progressive Congress, APC, would lose Bauchi State…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":49272,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-49478","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"yoast_head":"\n