‘Why Yuguda sacked aides’

A MEMBER of the committee set up by Governor Isa Yuguda of Bauchi State to recruit political appointees in the state, Alhaji Danladi Abubakar, has defended the recent disengagement of some aides, saying it was done in good faith and to restore sanity.

Abubakar disclosed this while answering question from reporters yesterday in Bauchi. He said Yuguda appointed a seven-man committee made up of Secretary to the State Government (SSG), Chief of Staff, Speaker of the House of Assembly, state PDP chairman and himself to nominate his personal aides from the 20 councils in the state”.

Abubakar, who is the state chairman, Local Government Pensions Board, said the committee’s initial list was altered by those he called opportunists, adding that all manner of persons were later appointed.

He said because of the irregularities discovered by the government and the lopsided nature of the appointments, the governor decided to sack all the appointees in order to correct the anomalies.

Abubakar disclosed that very soon, Yuguda would set up a committee to revisit the issue to ensure equity and appealed to those affected to be patient as every effort was being made to correct the error.