The controversy surrounding the Taraba State chapter of the
All Progressives Congress (APC), has again taken a different dimension.
This was noticed on Wednesday as the Presidential candidate
of the party, Ahmed Bola Tinubu, shunned the embattled governorship candidate
of the party, Emmanuel Bwacha to appoint the Minister of Transportation, Muazu
Jaji Sambo as the State coordinator of his presidential campaign.
This is in sharp contrast with what
happens in other States where the gubernatorial candidates head the
presidential campaign council of their various States in the absence of a
governor.
The decision, according to a chieftain of the party, who
craved anonymity, may be connected to the controversy regarding who is the
authentic candidate of the party in the State.
Since the party’s governorship primary election which did
not go down well with the majority of the aspirants, the party has been facing
a crisis.
This was followed by various pre-election matters instituted
against the party’s governorship flagbearer in both Jalingo and Abuja Federal
High Court.
While a court in Jalingo has nullified the primary, warning
the candidate to desist from parading himself as the party’s flagbearer, that
of Abuja has set next month for ruling.
Some chieftains of the party, including a retired Permanent
Secretary, Bakari Dorofi, told DAILY POST that “as far as we are concerned, our
party has no governorship candidate in Taraba”.
Dorofi went ahead to cite how the former Minority Leader in
the red chamber of the National Assembly crossed over to the APC at the
eleventh hour to clinch the party’s governorship ticket.
On why the candidate was not assigned with the responsibility of leading Tinubu/Shettima campaign in the State, a national official of the party, who confided in our correspondent via a telephone, said, ” our presidential candidate want Taraba APC to settle their differences because he (Tinubu) is not interested in taking side.”
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