Bauchi 2023: Ex-Chief of Air Staff, Saddique Abubakar denies recruiting 1,000 thugs

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 By Ismail Auwal

The gubernatorial candidate of the All Progressive Congress(APC) ex-Chief of Air Staff, Saddique Baba Abubakar, has denied recruiting 1,000 thugs and militants to intimidate his opponents ahead of the 2023 general elections.

Abubakar in a statement titled Ex-Chief of Air Staff, Sadique, Ruling APC Recruit ‘1000 Militants, Political Thugs’ Ahead of Bauchi Governorship Election’ as ”  described the story as  comical political publication trending as news item and published by an online newspaper.” 

He claimed that the story was fabricated to mislead the average Bauchi voters who are increasingly showing interest in ensuring the success of the APC in the 2023 gubernatorial election. 

He described the incumbent government as  “colossal failure” and claimed that Bala Muhammad led administration has failed to provide the state with purposeful leadership and dividends of democracy in the past three years.

The ex-Chief of Air Staff, said “the publication in question, which publishers credited their sources to an unnamed Colonel of the Nigerian Army, said it is in possession of a ‘security signal’ on the said recruitment exercise, without further presenting facts, but only quoted some anonymous ‘politicians’ who obviously funded the publication.”

The statement noted that Shehu Aliyu Musa (Barden Gabas of Bauchi), a member of the association, attended a meeting organised to congratulate him on his emergence as a running mate to ex-chief of air staff with the leadership of the Bauchi State Amalgamated Associations of Butchers, Hunters, Cobblers, Blacksmiths, and Berbers after opening the Associations’ State Secretariat in Bauchi.”

Abubakar explained that, as law-abiding citizens, “we did not hold the meeting in question until we officially sought for and obtained the approval of the Bauchi state police commissioner who was represented at the meeting by an assistant superintendent of police.”

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