Bauchi APM Crisis Deepens As Faction Removes Chairman, Names Interim Leader

A management disaster has erupted within the Bauchi State chapter of the Allied Peoples Movement (APM), following the announcement by a faction of the get together’s executives of the removing of its chairman, Auwal Isah, over alleged constitutional breaches and lack of confidence in his management.

The get together’s secretary, Mohammed Nasir Yahaya, who led some executives to a press convention on Wednesday, mentioned Isah’s removing adopted allegations of monetary mismanagement, poor record-keeping, failure to function an official get together checking account and the unconstitutional dealing with of get together affairs.

Yahaya introduced that an emergency assembly of the executives had put in Hon. Nasiru Nuru Marafa because the interim chairman of the get together within the state.

He mentioned the disaster emerged following the current defection of Bauchi State Governor Bala Mohammed and different authorities officers to the APM, alleging that the event had created disagreements over the composition and management of the get together’s management construction.

According to him, Auwal Isah, who had led the get together since 2018, allegedly altered the names of members of the state govt committee and launched people who, he claimed, weren’t unique members of the get together however had been loyal to the state authorities and the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP).

“We have some internal crisis whereby our chairman, Auwal Isah, changed the full names of the executive committee and brought in others who were not in the party but were loyalists of the government and PDP organs who came with the governor when he returned to the APM,” Yahaya alleged.

He mentioned the aggrieved members had submitted complaints and petitions to the get together’s nationwide management over the alleged adjustments, including that their considerations had but to be resolved.

Yahaya additional alleged that there had been an association underneath which the state authorities sought to regulate 70 per cent of the get together’s management positions, whereas the unique members would retain 30 per cent.

He mentioned the prevailing get together management had agreed to the proposed association and established a harmonisation committee to reconcile the pursuits of the previous and new members.

However, he alleged that the committee met for under 4 days earlier than its actions had been suspended indefinitely, leaving the proposed harmonisation course of incomplete.

“We formed a committee for harmonisation, but it sat for only four days before the meeting was suspended until further notice. There was no harmonisation that took place,” he mentioned.

Yahaya added that the aggrieved executives later learnt of plans for a stakeholders’ assembly, which they claimed had not been communicated to them via the suitable get together buildings.

He mentioned they subsequently wrote to the nationwide management of the APM and the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), informing them that they weren’t conscious of any correctly convened assembly that might produce adjustments to the get together’s management.

The factional secretary additionally mentioned the group had written to Governor Mohammed over the disaster, including that the governor had assured them that the matter can be resolved amicably.

According to Yahaya, the governor had urged get together members to keep up peace and forestall the disagreements from escalating, notably because the get together ready for future common elections.

“He told us that since we are in the APM, he knew we wanted our party to win the general elections. He did not want the internal problem to go beyond our control, so we maintained law and order to calm everything down,” he mentioned.

Yahaya additional claimed that, among the many 28 members of the get together’s state govt committee, Isah was the one one actively concerned within the APM’s actions within the state earlier than the current political realignments.

He mentioned the faction had formally communicated its choice on Isah’s removing to INEC and the nationwide management of the get together.

However, the announcement has been disputed by one other faction inside the get together.

The factional publicity secretary of the APM, Abdulshakur Danlami Mohammed, challenged Yahaya’s declare to the place of get together secretary, insisting that he was not the recognised secretary of the get together.

Although Mohammed didn’t deny the membership of the aggrieved officers, he mentioned the get together would reply appropriately to the event.