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My purported sack, plot to sell APC, says Bilal

By Emmanuel Samaila, Yola
08 September 2022   |   1:23 am
The embattled Chairman of All Progressives Congress (APC) in Adamawa State, Ibrahim Bilal, has accused some of the aggrieved members of his executive of planning to sell the party to Governor Ahmadu Fintiri in 2023.

Adamawa State Governor, Ahmadu Fintiri

• Vows to sue Sahara Reporters

The embattled Chairman of All Progressives Congress (APC) in Adamawa State, Ibrahim Bilal, has accused some of the aggrieved members of his executive of planning to sell the party to Governor Ahmadu Fintiri in 2023.

Bilal, in a statement yesterday in Yola, alleged that some of his executive members had concluded arrangements with the governor to create confusion in APC for the governor’s benefit.

“This fight is not for Bilal alone; we must unite to save our party from fifth columnists, whose alternative plan is to sow confusion within the party, after having sold the party and their conscience to Governor Ahmadu Fintiri, with a promissory note they hope to cash after 2023 elections.

“The opposition’s plan to plunge the party into crisis, at the verge of a crucial elections, should reawaken our consciousness and vigilance, because democracy dies through nonchalance to actions of a political class bent on subverting the rule of law.”

Bilal, who vowed to sue Sahara Reporters, accused the author of the story – of him joining the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) – of fabricating malicious lies and blackmailing him to justify his pay.

“Without stating the obvious, Sahara Reporters, which has been reportedly hired, as a proxy for their disinformation campaign, terribly got it wrong.

“I cannot, at this stage in my political life, have contemplated resigning my position as Adamawa APC chairman. That said, they would soon hear from my lawyers, if within seven days they don’t retract their fallacious and mendacious report, alleging my fictitious defection to the PDP,” he said.

Bilal further pointed out that the antagonism against him was as a result of the fallout of the party’s governorship primary. His words: “The truth is that those who feel I remain a threat to their lifetime ambition of governing the state, against the popular will of our party’s men and women, feel Bilal, should be made the scapegoat for reasons of expediency.

“But I take exception to being vilified by those who are already in collusion with the ruling PDP in the state to sabotage our party’s chances in the 2023 elections, which all this machinations is contrived to achieve to the detriment of our party.

“I can’t leave the party now, not even for the discredited PDP in the state nor any other political party.”

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