As leadership crisis that engulfed Bauchi State chapter of the opposition All Progressive Congress (APC) deepens, a coalition of the supporters of the party has reacted to the call for the resignation of the embattled State Chairman of the party, Uba Ahmed Nana, by a chieftain of the party, Alhaji Hassan Sheriff, for alleged failure to reconcile aggrieved party members as unfair and unwanted.
The coalition in a press statement signed by its secretary, Muhammad Auwal Matori, issued to Journalists on Sunday, stated that Uba Nana has shown strong leadership traits even with party’s disappointing outing at both the governorship election and supreme court case.
“Our attention was drawn to a publication in some of the media outlets, purportedly authorised by one Mr Hassan Sheriff through his unknown platform Bauchi State APC reconciliation volunteers forum advocating for the resignation of Bauchi State APC chairman, Alhaji Uba Ahmed Nana,” it stated.
It further stated that: “To set the records straight, Sheriff was known across the political divides of Bauchi State as a person who does not have stable loyalty to any party. His only assets in politics remain his abilities to switch allegiance to any government in power.
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“Moreover, Sheriff is known by all and sundry in the polity as a serial loser. He has never won in his polling unit to deliver the party in the previous elections,” the coalition alleged.
Auwal Matori who restated the support of the coalition to the Uba Nana led leadership claimed that the APC chairman was able to lead the party to victory in 2015 elections in the state adding that even in the last 2019 polls, APC had won the presidential election, three senators, 9 members of the house of representatives and 22 members of the state assembly.
It will be recalled that Hassan Sharif, a close political ally of the defeated former governor, Mohammed Abdullahi Abubakar, had called on Uba Ahmed Nana to as a matter of necessity resigned having lost the gubernatorial election in the 2019 general elections.
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