Rt. Hon. Abubakar Suleiman, Speaker Bauchi State House of Assembly, has cleared the air on rumours making the rounds that he has perfected plans to defection from the All Progressives Congress, APC.
In a statement on Monday by his Spokesperson Abdul Burra, the Speaker was quoted as saying that he had no plan to jettison his party, the APC.
The Speaker stated this when he granted audience to APC leadership of Guda Ward on a congratulatory visit over his election as Chairman of Conference of Speakers of State Legislatures of Nigeria in his office.
The Speaker said he remains loyal and grateful to his party the APC on whose platform he contested and won election, calling on them to ignore all peddled rumours that he is leaving the party.
Th Speaker dust off insinuations suggesting that he refused to speak during the party’s grand finale campaign in Dass.
He said prior to the grand finale, all APC lawmakers in the House agreed that Majority Leader Hon. Tijjani Muhammad Aliyu being the Leader of the party in the Assembly would speak on behalf of the APC lawmakers.
“Not only during Dass campaign, in many events of the Party we usually ask the Majority Leader to speak for us.
“check the programme of events of the Dass Campaign, they never mention that Speaker Abubakar Suleiman will speak but mentioned speech of (APC) leadership of Bauchi State House of Assembly.
“There is nothing wrong if our party leader in the Assembly spoke for us,” the Speaker explained.
He said most of the rumours being circulated were concocted by bent defamatory elements, saying “Some of them couldn’t forget what transpired during our inauguration which they see as disloyalty to the party.
Alhaji Ya’u Kafinta, the Chairman of the party, said they visited the Speaker to congratulate him over his recent election as Chairman of Conference of Speakers of State Legislature of Nigeria which he said was a great source of joy and pride to all people of the area.
He recalled how the Speaker the contributed immensely to the growth and development of Guda Community even before joining politics, saying with ascendancy to the national limelight, the Speaker is reaping what he sow.
Alhaji Ya’u Kafinta added that the people of Guda feel proud that the son of the area became the first Ningi indigene to become Speaker, first Bauchi indigene to become Chairman of Northeast Speakers Forum and first North easterner to become Chairman of Conference of Speakers of State Legislatures of Nigeria, forecasting higher positions for the Speaker in the future.
