Chief Douglas Otaru, the former publicity secretary who was recently removed from his position following the APC state congress, was quoted as making several allegations against Dr. Aliyu Bello, the party’s state chairman. However, from all indications, the claims he raised in his write-up published in Nasarawa Mirror are false.
The alarmist tone of Chief Otaru’s intervention might make for dramatic reading, but it collapses under the weight of its own exaggerations and selective storytelling.
The attempt to portray Abdullahi Sule as a leader who sat idly by while a few “desperados” hijacked the party is not just misleading; it is a deliberate distortion. Governor Sule did not, at any point, abandon the party to run on “autopilot.” That claim is not only unfair but also a product of deep-rooted envy.
Even more troubling is the repeated assertion that a candidate was “anointed” without consultation. This is simply false. The governor engaged widely and wisely across the spectrum of stakeholders within the All Progressives Congress. Politics at that level is not conducted in isolation, and anyone familiar with the dynamics of Nasarawa politics knows that no serious decision of this magnitude is taken without extensive engagement.
If there are indeed “critical stakeholders” who were ignored, as Otaru claims, then let them come forward and say so plainly. Enough of the vague insinuations and shadowboxing. Public discourse demands clarity, not cowardly generalizations.
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Chief Douglas Otaru, the former publicity secretary who was recently removed from his position following the APC state congress, was quoted as making several allegations against Dr. Aliyu Bello, t...