The governor-elect of Bauchi state, Senator Bala Mohammed
has accused the governor of the state, Mohammed Abubakar of employing the
services of anti-graft agents to smear his reputation ahead of the swearing-in
billed for May 29.
Bala Mohammed is due to appear in court today at Court 26
FCT High Court Maitama in Abuja to face charges bordering on false declaration
of assets.
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC claimed
that Mohammed failed to declare all his assets in his previous trials.
The EFCC, in turn, has filed a six-count charge according to
available information. Ibrahim Danlami, a media aide of the
governor-elect said that Governor
Abubakar who had initially accepted defeat and congratulated Bala Mohammed
following the conclusion of the elections, turned around and withdrew his
congratulatory message and headed to the election tribunal after the
governor-elect pledged to probe the activities of the Abubakar administration.
“And if the Speaker of the House of Representatives, Yakubu
Dogara has discovered some documents which shows that over 2,000 ghost workers
have been inputted into the salaries and arrears of Bauchi State in the last
four years and over N400bn has come to Bauchi and we cannot see anything that
has been done for N5bn, if I don’t do it (probe him), then I have abdicated my
responsibility,” Bala Mohammed said in a recent interview.
“Some forces within the ruling party have perfected plots to
smear the reputation of the Bauchi State Governor-Elect, Senator Bala Mohammed
using the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission [EFCC] and a section of the
media as pliable tools.
The modus operandi of the forces is to dust up old and
abandoned cases against the governor-elect with the EFCC and brandish them as
fresh cases all in a desperate bid to blackmail him and deflate his soaring
popularity in Bauchi State,” Danlami said in the statement.
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