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Commissioners Shunned my Plea to Remain in Office, Says Bauchi Governor

Governor Bala Mohammed of Bauchi State has said that some of his commissioners and aides spurned his plea for them not to resign from his cabinet, but they insisted on leaving to run for different political offices in the 2023 general elections.
While presiding over the State Executive Council (SEC) meeting, at the weekend, Mohammed said he could not stop any of them from pursuing their ambitions, since he is also aspiring to be president. ?We are all politicians. This is time for politics; the timetable, guidelines and political forms are out. I know that there are so many of us that are political gladiators; those that want to go, those that I?m trying to persuade to stay back and those that refused to stay back. They have the right to refuse because we won?t step upon their universal suffrage.
?I may be meeting with some of you for the last time because the timetable is out. As for me, I enjoy working with you,? he told his cabinet members. The Guardian learnt that three of the commissioners had obtained nomination forms. They are Commissioner for Local Government and Chieftaincy Affairs, Nuhu Zaki (Senate), Commissioner for Health, Dr. Samaila Dahuwa (Senate), and Commissioner for Power, Science and Technology, Maryam Bagel (House of Representatives). Also, Commissioner for Works and Transport, Abdulkadir Chikasoro and Special Adviser on Legal Matters, Kefas Magaji are also nursing political ambitions.
MEANWHILE, the Executive Council had, on Friday, approved N26 billion to construct 210km of roads in different local councils of the state. While briefing newsmen on Friday night, the Commissioner for Works and Transport said that work would commence on some of the roads today (Monday). The Guardian gathered the state government approved over N700 million for the rehabilitation of the state?s Secretariat. According to Bagel, it also approved the digitisation of the state-owned media outfits and reconnection of 20 communities in darkness for over 10 years to the national grid.

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