7 APC Governors Who May Lose Re-election In 2019

Based on the writer’s opinion and the responses of the people he interviewed, it was alleged that, the governor isn’t level-headed, has a loggerhead with the national assembly members, his appointees fomenting problems for him, the Yusuf Tugga factor, salaries verification, pension, arrears, and odds and ends matters. It is only a mischievous observer or unreconstructed pundit can accused Gov. Abubakar of being not level-headed non-performance and failure to deliver crucial democratic dividend to the people as the record are there for the whole world to see as evidence and proof of his sterling achievements in the developmental and infrastructural arena are abundant and visible throughout the length and breadth of the ‘Pearl of Tourism’ state.

Interestingly and accordingly, it was reported that the governor don’t have problem but his appointees and if that was taken as a threat to his reemergence in 2019, the governor’s cabinets have been recently dissolved including special advisers. While the issue of verification which was evidently and deliberately over flogged has since been settled with the payment of the outstanding one month salaries being owed by the state government workers and the two months owed by the local government staffs of the state. Howbeit, it was done in a very good faith and for the benefit of not only the civil servants whose salaries were previously delayed and accumulated as backlogged during the erstwhile regime of Gov. Isa Yuguda but  to the entire people of Bauchi State whose funds have been siphoned through the orchestrated ghost workers and padded vouchers.

At the same time Gov. Abubakar is reversing the long years of neglect of the critical sector of infrastructural development cum roads construction by initiating tens of thousands of kilometres of macadamized roads of the best quality to link the urban townships with the rural areas as this is crucial to the movement of goods, services and persons that will go a long way in spurring fast track economic development while acting as a catalyst for rapid industrialization and commercialization of population centres within and outside the state, others are busy playing newspaper politics that’s far from the reality.

Laughable enough for someone to consider Yusuf Tugga as threat to Gov. Abubakar because even as at the time he was in the CPC, he never won the gubernatorial ticket but got it through connivance with few self-centered party officials vegging out in Abuja. He wasn’t on ground as far as Bauchi politics is concern and that was the reason he tried to adopt the same tricky strategy in APC and it fails and his promulgated popularity starts and ends in Abuja and the pages of newspapers but not in the state.

Culled From Leadership.ng