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Bauchi APM in crisis as faction suspends chairman
The ruling Allied Peoples Movement, APM, in Bauchi State is facing an internal crisis following the suspension of its chairman, Auwal Isah, by a faction of the party’s executives.
The faction, led by the party’s secretary, Mohammed Nasir Yahaya, announced the suspension at a press conference on Wednesday.
Yahaya said the decision was based on alleged lack of financial accountability, poor record-keeping, failure to operate an official party bank account and violation of the party’s constitution.
He said the faction had appointed Hon. Nasiru Nuru Marafa as interim chairman following an emergency meeting of the executives.
Yahaya linked the crisis to the defection of Governor Bala Mohammed and other government officials to the APM, alleging that Isah changed the party’s executive list to accommodate people who were not original members of the party.
He said the affected individuals were loyalists of the governor and members of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, who joined him in moving to the APM.
According to Yahaya, the party’s original members had complained to the state and national leadership over the changes, but the issues remained unresolved.
He also alleged that an arrangement was proposed to give the state government 70 per cent of the party’s leadership positions, while the original members would retain 30 per cent.
Yahaya said a committee was set up to harmonise the different interests but held meetings for only four days before its activities were suspended.
He added that the faction had written to the party’s national leadership and the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, saying it was not aware of a proposed stakeholders’ meeting.
Yahaya said Governor Bala Mohammed had earlier assured the aggrieved members that the disagreement would be resolved amicably.
He added that the faction had formally notified INEC and the party’s national leadership of Isah’s suspension.
However, the move has been challenged by another faction of the party.
Reacting to the development in an interview with select journalists, the factional publicity secretary, AbdulShakur Danlami Mohammed, said Yahaya was not the party’s secretary, although he did not dispute the group’s membership of the APM.
Mohammed said the party would issue an appropriate response to the development.
The ruling All Progressives Congress, APC, in Zamfara State is heading for a crisis ahead of its fresh primary election to select the party's candidate for the Kaura Namoda/Birnin Magaji Federal Constituency.
Recall that the Court of Appeal had ordered a fresh primary in the constituency.
In what appears to signal the beginning of a brewing crisis within the Zamfara APC, an aspirant, Hassan Dangaladima, has petitioned two organs of the party over the actions of its National Chairman, Prof. Nentawe Yilwatda.
In the petition sighted by DAILY POST on Tuesday, which has since gone viral, Dangaladima levelled several allegations against the APC National Chairman.
Chief among his allegations is that Yilwatda unilaterally constituted the committee to conduct the fresh primary without recourse to the National Working Committee (NWC), which he heads.
"Pursuant to the said court order, the National Chairman purported to nominate and approve a committee to conduct the rescheduled primary election.
"The said nomination was made unilaterally by the National Chairman; no meeting of the National Working Committee was convened for that purpose."
The petitioner also alleged that his main rival for the ticket, Honourable Aminu Sani Jaji, is not a card-carrying member of the party.
The petition urged the APC National Executive Committee, NEC, to halt the conduct of the fresh primary and appoint a new set of individuals to conduct the exercise.
However, in response to the petition, the APC National Chairman, through his media aide, Abimbola Tooki, dismissed the allegations as baseless.
According to the party chairman, the committee was properly constituted, contrary to the petitioner's claim.
DAILY POST reports that the Zamfara State Governor, Dauda Lawal recently defected to the APC. President Bola Tinubu's re-election campaign Director-General, Abdulaziz Yari, is also from Zamfara State.
APC crisis deepens as Zamfara aspirant accuses Yilwatda of bias ahead of fresh primary
The National Chairman of the Peoples Redemption Party, PRP, Hakeem Baba-Ahmed, says the party is in the 2027 election race to win and not to make numbers.
Baba-Ahmed made this statement at a strategic retreat organised for the party's leadership and candidates.
He charged the party's candidates to go out and convince Nigerians that PRP deserves their trust and their votes in 2027.
According to him, the party has the best presidential candidate in Donald Duke, adding that history and character have moulded him to lead Nigeria out of its current challenges to a deserved status of affluence, security and unity.
He also said that Duke's running mate, Malam Sule Mohammed, is a study in principled loyalty, excellence in personal and professional life and unparalleled humility, which is tragically rare in current leaders.
Baba-Ahmed said the party also has governorship candidates who will be models of competent leadership, integrity and courage, stressing that they are candidates who will embody service, sacrifice and humility.
"We are PRP. We're in the 2027 race to win not to make numbers. We are products of a great tradition which insists that Nigeria can be great enough for all those who work honestly, and a nation which has the same place for the weak and the vulnerable as it has for those who are trusted with power or possess wealth," Baba-Ahmed said.
According to him, the party is under no illusions that its tasks will be easy, stating that the party will be competing in very hostile environments where incumbents fear change, while PRP champions it.
He said the party will find resistance from politicians who bribe the people for their future, while PRP asks for trust and the courage to choose quality and integrity.
On his part, the party's presidential candidate, Donald Duke, took a swipe at the ruling All Progressives Congress, APC, saying it is enjoying too much advantage when it comes to campaign visibility.
According to him, opposition parties are finding it hard to get venues and places to put their adverts as the 2027 elections draw near.
He said the problem is making it harder and harder for opposition candidates to reach voters in different parts of the country.
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