…Is it a deliberate, rather continuous attempt aimed at bringing her grace to the ground? Who’s bankrolling the antagonism if any and why?
…The said list emanated from Senator Aishatu Dahiru Ahmed (Binani) as Adamawa State Coordinator, who single-handedly generated the list without consulting the party at both state and local governments’ levels for necessary inputs and final approval…
…The Adamawa PCC list isn’t a Binani arbitrary selection, as insinuated, It’s extracted from the main PCC list, compiled consequent upon state Stakeholder-Consultations…
Adamawa APC internal crises predate the party’s executive members rejection of what they referred to as “Binani’s state PCC list in circulation,” Yunusa Abubakar would observe, while speaking with the Periscope Global Publishers, pointing out, for instance, the cold war that resulted in the disqualification of the party’s governorship primary election, which produced Senator Aishatu Dahiru Ahmed, a.k.a Binani as the overwhelmingly celebrated, lone lady governorship candidate for the 2023 general elections, who incidentally, is made the president campaign committee coordinator for Adamawa state, considered as owing to her undebatable compelling popularity and prowess earned by her activities that generated people’s confidence in her as the only capable APC candidate to reclaim the Dougirei Hill; the seat of government in the state.
Some publications have suggested that the state executive members of the APC are not with the lone lady governorship candidate, as much as the body language could indicate. Though not an indictment, the groups that have participated in the pro Binani peace protests – hitherto accused of being sponsored – would say that apart from being vindicated, there was, vindictiveness however milder, in the economy with the truth, expressed in the response by the state organising secretary of the party, Mr. Mustapha Atiku Ribadu, during an interview with the Trust TV, where he pointed out that the peace protests across local governments of the state, expressing disaffection with the federal high court judgment that voided the party’s governorship primaries have shown the support to and the strength of the APC as a party other than the governorship candidate in Binani, even though the slogans are entirely “Sai Matan Nan,” “No Binani No Election”.
“Would it be any surprising if the state executive members of the party, who were said to have traveled to Abuja to visit a rather selected stakeholders, arguably in search of reconciliation, leaving the crisis rocking the state, snoring over the Tsunami like peace protest without addressing the aggrieved and the grievances can try in their continuity to turn the table by the act of rejecting the PCC List over lame excuses?” the women joining the peace protest project would expostulate.
Reading their position during a press conference on Wednesday in Yola, the APC state chairman, Mr. Samaila Tadawus charged members to discountenance the Adamawa Presidential Campaign Council list, alleging that it was arbitrarily doctored by Senator Binani.
According to the state Exco, “The All Progressives Congress (APC) Adamawa State Chapter surprisingly stumbled over a list of purported state presidential campaign council members in circulation on social media and some national dailies dated 31st October 2022 as a public announcement.
“The said list emanated from Senator Aishatu Dahiru Ahmed (Binani) as Adamawa State Coordinator, who single-handedly generated the list without consulting the party at both state and local governments’ levels for necessary inputs and final approval.
“On enquiry by the party, it was also confirmed that our members of the National Assembly, State Assembly, candidates and critical stakeholders were not consulted either.
“It will be recalled that the National Presidential Campaign Council contacted the party at the national level for necessary input and final approval before the campaign secretariat released the list.
“Therefore, the National Campaign Secretariat did not confer any right on any state coordinator to bypass the party and act unilaterally.
“In view of the above, the party hereby rejects the list in circulation and urges party members and the general public to disregard same.
“The party noted the various complaints from stakeholders who have been deliberately omitted and assured everybody that there will be a meeting of the Party Exco, Local Government Party Chairmen, candidates and stakeholders on Friday 4th November 2022 at Muna Hotel for proper consultations. A comprehensive list of the State Presidential Campaign Council members will be released thereafter.”
Would the would be Muna meeting in be accepted or responded same way the party executive members alleged to be bankrolled against Binani rejected the PCC list, which invariably serving as a rejection of the coordinatorship of the Binani?
Already the state the call by the state working committee was challenged by a publication denying that there was no stakeholders consultation, deliberate omissions and lacking in commensurability with the main PCC List as extracted.
The reaction Wednesday, signed by Hon. Mustapha Usman Bash reads in part thus:
ADAMAWA STATE APC STATE WORKING COMMITTEE TRYING TO SABOTAGE THE TINUBU/SHETTIMA CAMPAIGN IN THE STATE.
Our attention has been drawn to some shenanigans undertaken by the APC Adamawa State working Committee, acting in cohort with known PDP apologists to sabotage and undermine the Tinubu/Shettima Campaign in the State.
Let it be put on record that the position and role of Senator Aishatu Dahiru Ahmed (Binani) as the State Coordinator of the
Tinubu/Shettima Campaign in Adamawa followed her appointment into the PCC in Abuja.
Senator Binani officially collected her letter in that capacity and was subsequently Inaugurated on the 21st October, 2022, along with other PCC members.
As a dutiful party person, a democrat and a grassroots politician, Senator Aishatu Dahiru Ahmed (Binani) designed a template for establishing a PCC Campaign structure for Adamawa State that will ensure the design of a road map and a structure down to the polling unit…
It is therefore absurd and indeed regrettable that the state working committee of the APC, which was duly intimated of this laudable
programme came out and addressed a press conference claiming
ignorance of this elaborate arrangements made.
…This is clearly a direct confrontation with the PCC and a clear case of sabotage of the Tinubu/Shettima Campaign in Adamawa State for reasons best known to them…