An aspirant for the office of the National Secretary of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Dr. Samaila Dahuwa, from Bauchi State, has stressed that the conditions that necessitated the zoning of the position of the National Secretary of APC to Yobe or Borno states no longer existed.

According to the aspirant, APC cannot risk losing Bauchi State because it gave the highest vote to the President in North East despite losing the gubernatorial election to another party.

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Speaking with journalists over the weekend in Abuja, the aspirant also posited that the APC would field the best candidate to take over from President Muhammadu Buhari in 2023.

He admonished that the party must quickly resolve its internal issues, starting with filling of vacant positions of the party so that it would be better prepared and be in the best fighting force ahead of 2023.
He said: “Positions were zoned to the North East and they were divided with in the North East through consensus. Now the condition that led to all those decisions are no longer there and since the conditions have seized to exist, we believe those zoning agreement also seize to exist.


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“As I said earlier, party offices are zoned in order to give the party political advantage. I will give you an example. When the National Youth Leader was zoned to Bauchi and Gombe, we, the people of Bauchi, decided without anybody asking to tell the people of Gombe to take the position of the National Youth leader and at that time, Bauchi State had APC government and Gombe State had PDP government. We believed giving the position to Gombe would facilitate and give emphasis to the party in the state to work hard and take the government which they did and was actually positive.

“What we are saying in Bauchi now is as it stands, Yobe State has APC government and Senate President; Borno State has APC government apart from other appointments they have the Chief Whip of the House of Representatives. Gombe State has APC government; they have National Youth Leader of the APC. Adamawa State doesn’t have APC government but they have National Vice Chairman of APC and they also have the Secretary to the Government of the Federation, who is also a politician. It is very important to note that a politician in position is different from a non-politician in position. Taraba State doesn’t have APC in government but Taraba has never been an APC state. I can tell you if you give them the National Chairman, they won’t vote for APC. So, it is going to be a waste of position.

 Bauchi State had the highest votes in the whole of North East for President Buhari. Bauchi has been in the forefront of whatever agitation of the APC since the coming back of this administration.

“What we are saying is as it stands today, Bauchi State has nothing in the position of the National Working Committee of the party; no position in the National Assembly and no government and still we are the highest in votes unless APC wants to lose Bauchi State and I am sure APC doesn’t want to lose Bauchi State. Let me conclude by saying you can lose Kano State or Lagos State and still win the presidency of the country. Since Tafa Balewa up till today, there has never been a president that won presidency without winning Bauchi State.”