Bauchi guber race: Be relentless, focused regarding my political contest – APC’s Sadique charges supporters
… Says that he has all what it takes to emerge victorious
The All Progressives Congress, APC governorship candidate in Bauchi State, Air Marshal Abubakar Sadique, retired, has declared the March as a rescue mission for the Bauchi citizens while charging his supporters that they must remain unfaltering in ensuring that the election is won at all cost.
The former Chief of Air Staff, at a stakeholders meeting at his Bauchi private residence over the past weekend, charged his campaign managers and APC leaders in the state to spare no bill in ensuring that the ruling Peoples Democratic Party is defeated in 2023.
A source who was at the meeting narrated that the candidate was confronted with several staggering dividends of democracy by the incumbent government of Bala Mohammed and was told that it would be difficult to upstage the governor who has become very popular with the people of the state.
According to the source, the APC candidate was infuriated and told his audience that he has a staggering war chest to confront the ruling party in the state and was ready to achieve success no matter how difficult it will be.
“I have prepared for this election very well. I spend considerable part of my life working on it as project.” Sadique stated.
Furthermore, Sadique promised to facilitate the provision of social investment programs to the state by the federal government.
Such programmes which are captured under the National Social Investment Programme include Conditional Cash Transfers, N-Power Programme, Government and Empowerment Programme, National Home Grown School Feeding Programme, Government Enterprise Programme, Special Grant Transfer, Public Workforce and Skills for Jobs, Youth Employment and Social Support Operation, Rural Women Cash Grant, Tradermoni, Marketmoni, and Farmermoni.
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Present at the meeting include his campaign directors, the state working committee led by the chairman of the party in the state, Babayo Aliyu Misau, some members of the state assembly amongst others.
Recall that Air Marshal Sadique, has been called out over corruption allegations by a number of Civil organisations including Corruption Track Network (CTN) which have demanded that he not only responds to these numerous allegations levelled against him but that he should do so within two weeks failing which massive mass actions in the form of protest marches, rallies, petitions to EFCC, DSS and international crime fighting agencies will be unleashed against him.
CTN had written to world bodies demanding that Air Marshal Sadique and his wife, the current minister of Humanitarian Affairs, Hajia Sadiya Umar respond to numerous allegations of corruption, human rights abuses and unlawful recruitment in Bauchi State as well as that took place under his watch as Chief of Air Staff.
A statement by the Country Director of CTN, Dr. Idris Inusa confirmed that the organisation is in reciept of several allegations levelled against the retired military officer which are viewed globally as major components of crime against humanity and a threat to the society.
Some of the allegations CTN said it has being tracking include: That as a one time Nigerian Chief of Air Staff, Air Marshal Abubakar Sadique was enmeshed in a series of corruption allegations including abuse of power and multiple diversion of funds meant for procurement of military hardware and allowances for personnel of the Armed Forces.
According to CTN which recalled how Nigeria’s National Security Adviser, Babagana Monguno, had revealed that funds running into billions of naira meant for procuring arms and ammunition under the past service chiefs, including Air Marshal Abubakar Sadique, were unaccounted for.
Corruption Track Network (CTN) also stated that the Federal Ministry of Humanitarian Affairs and Disaster Management has been as a cesspool of corruption, lacking transparency and accountability, with hundreds of billions unaccounted for under the leadership of the Hajia Sadiya Umar, wife of Abubakar Sadique, who incidentally is the pioneer minister in the newly created ministry.
