Bauchi APC Gov’ship Running Mate, APM Clash Over Assassination Allegation

The deputy governorship candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Bauchi State for the 2027 elections, Hon. Farouk Mustapha, has alleged that there have been plots to assassinate him following his defection from the Allied Peoples Movement (APM).

Mustapha made the allegation on Saturday in Itas, Itas/Gadau Local Government Area, throughout an occasion organised to welcome the incumbent member representing Itas/Gadau Constituency within the Bauchi State House of Assembly, Hon. Yusuf Abdullahi Itas, who defected from the APM to the APC.

He claimed {that a} assembly was allegedly held about one or two months after he left the APM, the place plans have been made to get rid of him.

However, the deputy director-general of the APM Campaign Organisation in Bauchi State, Hon. Danlami Ahmad Kawule, dismissed the allegation, describing it as baseless and an try to draw public sympathy.

Kawule argued that there was no cause for anybody to focus on Mustapha, insisting that the allegation was fabricated.

Mustapha’s allegation

“About a month or two after I left the party, a meeting was held where plans were hatched to kill Farouk. Faruk’s life is in the hands of God,” he alleged.

The former commissioner maintained that political energy comes from God, who offers and takes it away at His personal discretion, insisting that no quantity of intimidation or alleged plots in opposition to his life might alter God’s will.

He described the alleged political assaults in opposition to him as indicators of desperation forward of the 2027 elections, including that his political camp was targeted on successful reasonably than partaking in pointless confrontations.

“All the frantic noise they are making now is merely a sign of their impending defeat. We are not concerned with them; they are not our focus,” he stated.

Mustapha, who served as Commissioner for Special Duties and Rural Development below Governor Bala Mohammed, additionally cautioned in opposition to using malice and false accusations in politics, saying such practices wouldn’t profit Bauchi State.

However, the deputy director-general of the APM Campaign Organisation in Bauchi State, Hon. Danlami Ahmad Kawule, dismissed the allegation, describing it as baseless and an try to draw public sympathy.

Kawule argued that there was no cause for anybody to focus on Mustapha, insisting that the allegation was fabricated.

“This is not the time for games, nor is it appropriate to level false accusations against others just to secure votes or incite resentment toward someone else. There is no justification for a politician to enter the political arena and make such wild, baseless claims simply to garner public sympathy,” he stated.

He additional described the allegation that Mustapha was being trailed for assassination as unfaithful, questioning the premise of the declare.

“We don’t even know what he’s talking about. It is nothing more than the desperate rhetoric of someone who realises he is headed for defeat,” Kawule added.

The controversy has additionally generated reactions on social media, notably following feedback by Shamsuddeen Bala Mohammed, the eldest son of the Bauchi State Governor, who reportedly described the allegation as fabricated and supposed to mislead the general public.

Mustapha, a former Commissioner for Special Duties and Rural Development, had earlier resigned his membership of the APM in a letter dated May 5, 2026, addressed to the social gathering chairman of Bakin Kasuwa Ward, Azare, Katagum Local Government Area.

He was additionally a former APC governorship aspirant and served as Director-General of Governor Bala Mohammed’s 2023 re-election marketing campaign below the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) Governorship Campaign Council.

Meanwhile, the defection of Yusuf Abdullahi Itas from the APM to the APC has added to the political realignments forward of the 2027 elections.

The lawmaker, who chairs the Bauchi State House of Assembly Committee on Petitions, stated his resolution to depart the APM adopted the alleged substitute of his title because the social gathering’s candidate for the Itas/Gadau Constituency within the forthcoming elections.

He expressed dissatisfaction with the social gathering’s resolution, saying it didn’t replicate the political pursuits of his constituency.

According to him, the alleged substitution of his title knowledgeable his resolution to affix the APC.

Recently, the Bauchi State Police Command has warned political events and their supporters in opposition to violence, thuggery, hate speech and different actions able to disrupting public peace forward of the 2027 normal elections.

The Commissioner of Police, CP Sani-Omolori Aliyu, gave the warning throughout a gathering with leaders of political events on the Police Headquarters in Bauchi.

The assembly was attended by 12 representatives from 10 registered political events within the state.

Represented by the Deputy Commissioner of Police accountable for Operations, DCP Abdulmajid Isah, the commissioner assured political events of sufficient and neutral safety all through the electioneering interval.

“Politics is a contest of ideas. Bauchi State is bigger than any election, and we must all work to keep the peace,” he stated.

Aliyu urged political events to focus on selling their insurance policies and manifestos reasonably than attacking opponents or partaking in private insults.

He cautioned them in opposition to utilizing abusive language in opposition to political opponents, the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), conventional establishments and safety companies.

The commissioner additionally warned in opposition to blocking roads, disrupting the rallies of different political events and violating authorised marketing campaign venues, deadlines and sound restrictions.

He additional suggested political events in opposition to carrying firearms, harmful weapons or illicit medicine to political gatherings, warning them to not mobilise thugs, members of the Sara-Suka group or vigilante teams to trigger hassle.

Aliyu disclosed that the Command would monitor on-line political actions by its Cybercrime Unit, stressing that political events could be held liable for the actions of their brokers, supporters and media handlers.

He additionally drew consideration to related provisions of the Electoral Act, 2022, and the Cybercrimes Act, which prescribe sanctions for offences together with thuggery, political violence, destruction of marketing campaign supplies, hate speech, incitement, cyberbullying, stalking and deliberate dissemination of false info.