Despite Supporting You, Bauchi South is Neglected, APC Group Tells Tinubu

Segun Awofadeji in Bauchi

Alhial Initiative Forum (AIF), a Bauchi-based All Progressives Congress’ (APC) support group that worked for the party’s success in the 2023 general elections under Mr. Isa Yuguda, has expressed concern that Bauchi South Senatorial has suffered neglect since APC assumed the leadership of the country.

In a statement made that was made available to newsmen in Bauchi yesterday, the AIF said that two-third of the votes of the APC in the last presidential election in Bauchi State came from Bauchi south, yet none of the two ministerial slots was given to the zone.

The Chairman of the AIF, Mr. Ibrahim Gokaru, said that “since 2015, people of Bauchi south senatorial zone have been voting APC overwhelmingly, yet none of two ministers given to the state in the last administration was from the south.

“We are worried that the same scenario is playing out another two ministerial slots given to state taken up by the other parts of the state, even as the only APC senator is from the south.”

Gokaru said that in the interest of fairness, honour and reward for hard work, Mr. Isa Yuguda should be “compensated with strong appointment for his contribution to the success of APC, after all none of the other politicians was seen working for the success of APC as Yuguda as APC will soon need his structure against 2027.”

According to Gokaru, Yuguda is the only politician with strong and wide networks, having former commissioners, advisers, local government council members, lots of assistants and other heads of parastatals as well as assembly members that he mentored and worked with him that were used to smoothen the electoral victory of APC.

He, therefore, warned that if the experience under the immediate past administration is repeated with all major federal appointments concerned against the zone that produced more votes, people of the south senatorial zone would be discouraged from supporting the party.

The AIF appealed to President Tinubu to give Mr. Isa Yiguda a “befitting appointment that that will be used to restore unity to the party.”