The Bauchi state Chapter of the People’s Democratic Party, PDP, has revealed that the people of Bauchi state collectively sacked ex-governor Abubakar because he served for four years as a tenant who could not repair the state.
The state party’s Chairman, Hamza Koshe Akuyam who made the revelation during a media chat organised by the state governor to celebrate his first 100 days in office on Saturday said that the PDP was careful enough to expose the incompetence of the immediate past Governor Abubakar to the people of the state.
According to Akuyam, the idea was to enable the people of Bauchi state to determine whether they can vote for ex-governor to continue to ruin the fortunes of the state or vote for Bala Mohammed to restore its lost glory.
The PDP chairman maintained that the ability of his party to select the rightful candidate, expose what he termed, “cluelessness and ineptness of the former Governor Abubakar were some of the secret behind the defeat of the All Progressives Congress APC led administration in the 2019 gubernatorial election in the state.”
“Now, the people of Bauchi know that there is a difference between a tenant and the landlord. “A tenant does not repair the house he is renting. “The former Governor was a tenant, so, he could not work for the progress of Bauchi because he was a tenant, so we brought in the son of the soil and drove him out so that the people of Bauchi will have relief.” The party chief said.
“The first thing we did was, we allowed delegates to freely choose among the contestants, the PDP did not impose any candidate on the people, so the people were able to select Bala Mohammed to be the candidate of the party going by his charisma and vast experience in politics.” The PDP Chairman Said.
Akuyam added that, “because the then senator Bala was proved to be a straight forward person and was so committed to winning the election, and we were able to vote out the inept government who were clueless because we were able to expose them to the public to see and they made their choice through the ballots.”
