Bulus Amos, senator representing Gombe south, has been suspended by the All Progressives Congress (APC) in his state for allegedly working against the party during the elections.
Muhammad Kaka, the Bambam APC ward chairman in Balanga LGA, told reporters on Tuesday that Amos allegedly did not support the party during the elections.
Kaka said though the senator appeared before a disciplinary committee, he could not defend the allegations against him but instead “threatened” the ward executives.
“We held elections in our ward during the just concluded general election and we have senator Amos from our ward who didn’t come out to partake in our political activities,” NAN quoted Kaka as saying.
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“Instead, the senator went round with his supporters telling them not to vote for the APC in his polling unit and the surrounding polling units. APC didn’t win any of those units because of his anti-party activities.
“This really disturbed the executives at the ward and we sat down to examine this and decided to summon him to defend himself and explain why he did what he did.”
“The senator went ahead to threaten ward executives, saying we have no right to expel him from the party; this is wrong as no one is bigger than the party. It is in view of this that we the executives at the ward decided to suspend Amos from our party.”
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In reaction, Felix Manasseh, the senator’s media aide, said the suspension was a “political witch hunt”.
“For those that accused him of losing his polling unit, who in Gombe state can boast of victory in his unit during the presidential election? Yet Amos won his state assembly election and delivered his local government during the governorship election,” Manasseh said.
Bulus was suspended by the party in April over allegations of anti-party activities.
Also, NAN reports that Yunusa Abubakar, a house of representatives member from Gombe, was always suspended for alleged anti-party activities.
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