Stakeholders of the All Progressives Congress from Bauchi Central Zone have insisted that Hon Sanusi Sunusi Aliyu Kunde is the winner and legitimately elected Chairman of the party in Bauchi.
The stakeholders under the leadership of Hon Adamu Noma, from Bauchi central Zone, made the declaration at a press conference on Saturday in Bauchi.
Noma said that the three other aspirants for the position of the state chairman of the party stepped down for Hon Sanusi Aliyu Kunde.
“As a result of stakeholders’ pacification and the subsequent step down of other aspirants, stakeholders have unanimously endorsed Hon Sanusi Aliyu Kunde as the next Chairman of APC in Bauchi State,” he said.
Hon Noma said that some of the critical stakeholders of the party attempted to highjack the congress through a rancorous meeting in Abuja that sought to produce a consensus candidate anointed by Minister of Education, Adamu Adamu.
He said that it was resolved at the meeting in Abuja that a congress is convened to elect the party’s chairman for the state but no official from the National Secretariat of the APC showed up to supervise the election in Bauchi.
Noma said after it became apparent to them on the day of the election that officials of the party from Abuja are nowhere to be seen at the venue of the congress, they decided to go ahead with the congress.
He said that stakeholders of the APC failed to agree on a consensus candidate during their meeting in Abuja, hence the resolution to hold the congress in Bauchi.
Also speaking, Alhaji Hassan Sherif, Sarkin Arewan Bauchi accused Education Minister Mallam Adamu Adamu of hijacking the party structures and imposing Hon. Babayo Misau.
“The minister who has never contributed anything for the development of our party cannot just impose a candidate via a telephone call.
“He did not even attend our meeting, he just placed a phone call and imposed a candidate on us; we will not allow this shenanigan to stand”, Sherif said while responding to journalists in Bauchi.
