Sun News
Ex-Chief of Air Staff and governorship candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Bauchi State, Air Marshal Sadique Abubakar, has denied recruiting 1000 militants and political thugs ahead of the Bauchi State Governorship Election in 2023
The denial was contained in a statement issued by the Chairman, Air Marshal Sadique Baba Abubakar Media & Publicity Committee, Salisu Ahmed Barau, made available to journalists in Bauchi on Tuesday.
Reacting to an online story (not Daily Sun),the Ex- Chief of Air Staff said the story was fabricated to mislead the average Bauchi voters who he posited were increasingly showing interests in ensuring the success of his candidature in the forthcoming general election.
Abubakar said the electorate was finding him and the APC more appealing “owing to the colossal failure of the ruling party to provide the State with purposeful leadership and dividends of democracy in the past three years”
He described the story as a political mischief, wrapped in a news garment.
“It’s apparently a dirty political hatchet job that calls for immediate clarification from the Air Marshal Sadique Baba Abubakar Media Office,” the statement read.
“To put the records straight, the publication in question, which publishers credited their sources to an unnamed Colonel of the Nigerian Army, said it is in possession of a ‘security signal’ on the said recruitment exercise, without further presenting facts, but only quoted some anonymous ‘politicians’ who obviously funded the publication.
“Honourable Shehu Aliyu Musa (Barden Gabas of Bauchi), who is member of the association attended the meeting that was organised to congratulate him on his emergence as the running mate to Air Marshal Sadique Baba Abubakar with the leadership of the Bauchi State Amalgamated Associations of Butchers, Hunters, Cobblers, Blacksmiths, and Berbers after opening the Associations’ State Secretariat in Bauchi.
