Bauchi APC crisis: Dogara differs with Tukur
…Speaker ready for consensus, reconciliation
In spite of comments made by one of the Speaker Yakubu Dogara’s close political allies and member representing Lere/Bula in the Bauchi House of Assembly, Mohammed Aminu Tukur that the rift between members of the National Assembly representing the state, and Governor Mohammed Abubakar and his cronies,
including state APC members is irreconcilable, the Speaker, weekend said the political hiatus within the ranks and files of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in the state can be reconciled.
The Speaker assured of his readiness for consensus and reconciliation with any party member who felt aggrieved with him.
Tukur had said weekend at Dogara’s 50th birthday thanks giving reception held at his Bogoro hometown that, “we would not allow a situation whereby our leader Dogara will be caged to be sold to our adversaries in the party”.
Daily Times recalled that APC members in Bauchi shortly after the 2015 general elections engaged in hostilities that broke them into two warring factions of National Assembly members representing the state on one hand, and Governor Abubakar’s government and party officials on the other, an acrimony that defied solution to date.
Hope of reconciliation between the Bauchi APC two warring factions came to limelight last week in Abuja at the Speaker Dogara’s 50th birthday celebration with a charity football match and book launch where Governor Abubakar purchased some books worth millions of naira.
Speaker Dogara said that he is ready to sit at a round table as brothers and sisters with the other warring faction and all stakeholders involved for amicable settlement of the dispute that has affected the interest of the generality of electorates in the state.
“It means we will only have to project the interests of our people first, and I believe with consensus we are going to sit down as brothers and sisters on a table of brotherhood with all stakeholders involved, even if it means to agreeing and disagreeing, lets agree to disagree”, he said.
According to the speaker, nobody is going to be taken to any market for marketing, adding “We don’t have any market in Bauchi state where human beings are sold. Let’s pivot on the interest of the majority of our people to resolve our dispute”.
Dogara while enumerating various developmental projects he facilitated their realization at the Dass, Tafawa Balewa and Bogoro federal constituency during the past few years, assured that more are coming, especially roads with the Tapshin – Gambar – Sara road that could lead to Plateau state through Gindiri, and many other ones that will follow.
From Samuel Luka, Bauchi
