By Najib Sani, Bauchi
A chieftain of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Bauchi state Alhaji Bibi Dogo has challenged the former governor, Mohammed Abubakar to account for N321, 267, 339 .69 he allegedly collected within the first 31 months of his administration or show the projects he executed with the funds.
Dogo challenged the former governor in Bauchi over the weekend when he interacted with reporters and claimed that the amount was collected under the watch of the former governor from Paris club funds, statutory allocation of State and Local Governments, donations from the United State of America for educational development, internally generated revenue, domestic and foreign loans.
Breaking down the amount, Dogo who served in the assets and recovery committee set up by the incumbent governor Bala Mohammed alleged that from the records at the their disposal the former governor collected N33,425,994,087,69 for first, second and third tranche of the Paris club loans refunds from the federal government.
“Ex-Governor Abubakar collected N205,328,523,558,00 for state and local governments from the federation account within the first 31 months of his administration, and he received donations from the USA $57,000,000 equivalent to N17,385,000,000,00 and between June 2015 June 2016 the former governor received N22,778,721,996,00.
“The former governor collected N59,734,100,000,00 both domestic and foreign loans including 11,000,000,000,00 budget support collected from the Federal Government.
The PDP stalwart said this is the first of their revelations on the amount of money collected by the former governor without commissioning a single project within his first tenure and by the grace of God we will release the second and third phase of the amount received during the tenure of former governor within his 48 months in office”.
He said it was shameful the recent press conference by the media committee of the All Progressive Congress APC in which they made allegations of mismanagement against the incumbent governor Bala Mohammed opining that within one year in office, the PDP led government has executed billions of Naira projects, that were physically seen by the people of the state.
According to him, the projects included constructions of roads, bridges in the three senatorial districts, provision of water, construction of over 1000 classrooms by SUBEB and SDGS and establishment of Corona Virus testing center among others.