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Ondo APC crisis: ”I fear no juju” – Jigawa governor

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Gov. Badaru Abubakar of Jigawa State says he is not afraid of charms and will conduct the Ondo APC primary election transparently.

Abubakar said this while briefing newsmen in Abuja after being sworn in as the Chairman of All Progressives Congress (APC) Ondo Primary Election Committee.
He said: “Free and fair election will solve the problem. If they believe we are free, fair and transparent, they will accept the result.

“Well in the first place, I don’t believe in juju so certainly, I am surely not afraid.
“I don’t know of any imposition, my duty there is to be free, fair and transparent and I think that is the only thing that will help the party.”

He said the issue of identifying the delegates was important and their international passport, permanent voter card or national identity card would suffice.

“Any one of the three will be able to solve the identification problem,” he said.
Abubakar advised other governors to cut expenditure in order to overcome the embarrassment of owing staff salaries.

He said once the workers were paid and happy, any state could move forward and be productive.
“In Jigawa, we are not owing salaries. In fact, we always pay on the 25th of every month whether the federation account comes in or not.

“We are not owing either local government or state salaries and we are not owing pension. In fact, pensioners collect on the 13th or 15th.

“We are not owing gratuity as well. We are really very clean as far as staff welfare is concerned and even this week or next week, we’ll be paying the annual leave grants as promised.

“The magic is being prudent. You just have to do what you think is good for the people.
“Paying workers is of paramount importance and we have to sacrifice all what we do to be sure to pay our workers because workers have to remain focused.

”We do a lot of cost savings and employ cost-saving techniques to reduce the expenditure of the government.
“For instance in the government house, the expenditure has been reduced by as much as 80 percent, while general overhead has been reduced as much as 47 percent.

“The security vote has been reduced as much as 87 percent. We use only 13 percent of what they normally used.

“So, all those expenditures that have no direct bearing to the common man have been reduced drastically to give room for service to the people.”

The APC Primary Election Committee is made up of Dr Bruce Ugbide, Rep. Hamma Ali, Prince M. Martin and Mr Mohammed Lawal.

The Election Appeals Committee is headed by Mrs Helen Bendeha, with Alhaji Musa Umar and Ms Nicky Ejezie as members.

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  1. This Man is one of the Northern Governors that have payed and have continue to pay salaries to workers but in state level and local government level, i live in miga LGA in Jigawa state and i can tell you for real that these News is authentic

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