A political pressure group in Bauchi known as ‘Bauchi State Concerned Citizens Assembly’ has insisted that Governor MA Abubakar will still win the 2019 general elections despite low performance in his first tenure.
WikkiTimes’ investigation has revealed that the state leads north eastern states in domestic debt.
Most of the roads contracts awarded in the state remain uncompleted, its schools are still in shambles with over 1.2 million out of school children still roaming the streets.
But a group lead by Danlami Babban Takko in a press statement says the governor will win the March polls, arguing that the recent coalition against the Governor does not hold waters.
” It is not true as claimed by the coalition, that there is lack of any meaningful infrastructural development to fuel economic revival in the state. Apart from the fact that Governor M. A Abubakar inherited an empty treasury due to mismanagement by the last PDP administration, yet the administration was able to construct roads linking the major highways and some cluster Local Government road networks”. The statement read in a part.
The group also stated that the governor should be commended for eliminating the menace of political thuggery among youth by engaging them in positive pursuits which brought about relative peace in the state.
” On educational development in Bauchi state, it is gladdening to note that the government of Mohammed Abdullahi Abubakar have paid and continue to pay fees for JAMB and NECO among others to students from poor families, while its school feeding programme is one of the best in the country”. They pointed out.
But a recent investigation has revealed how pupils in public schools in the state learn in “super crowded classes and on a bare floor” despite over N18.5 billion UBEC grant accessed bt the state government.
The state Governor has been under intense pressure especially from opposition politicians in recent times to pay retirees their emoluments.
