Following the inconclusive Governorship election declared by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) in Bauchi State, Yakubu Dogara, the Speaker, House of Representatives, has called on the incumbent governor of the state, Mohammed Abubakar, to surrender the mandate of the people now that he has lost the election.

Dogara who was flanked by the PDP Governorship candidate, Bala Mohammed, and state party chairman and other party stalwarts at the NUJ Secretariat on Monday in Bauchi, alleged that the cancellation of election in Tafawa Balewa Local Government by the state returning officer, Professor Mohammed Kyari was illegal and orchestrated to oppress the people of the state.

Dogara alleged that the governor had on several occasions referred to him as a light weight politician, whose constituency could only deliver nothing more than 70,000 votes, adding that Governor Abubakar boasted that he won his election in 2015 with 300,000 votes and does need a single vote from Tafawa Balewa Local Government to become a governor.


He said, “I want the media to ask the governor, “Will it therefore not amount to an act of unprecedented shamelessness for him to go now to Tafawa Balewa, my constituency with only 70,000 votes that he does not require, to go and campaign for their votes or to Illegally source votes from there, to make up and become a governor?

“If there is any honour on his part, having declared that he doesn’t need one single votes from there, I think, honour demands that he should surrender at this point that he has lost this election,” he said.


The Speaker alleged that apart from the illegal cancellation, INEC in the state was still sourcing for other units that they would cancel even after they have collated and declared the results as they are not sure of what would happen in Tafawa Balewa during the supplementary election.

Dogara said that the election was peaceful, free and fair at the unit level as attested to by the local government returning officer, alleging that they only challenge they encountered, was that political thugs of Governor Abubakar invaded the local government collation centre and carted away some result sheets.

He called on INEC Chairman, Mamoud Yakubu, to intervene in the election crisis rocking the state, saying that declaration of inconclusive election in the state by INEC was a brazen rape of the mandate of Bauchi State.

https://www.akelicious.net/2019/03/surrender-bauchi-peoples-mandate-dogara.html

Bauchi must not be rigged

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With this, it's officially over for APC in Bauchi