Bauchi: APM Leadership Crisis Deepens as Committee Rejects Mai Takalminroba’s Claim to Leadership

From Paul Orude, Bauchi

The leadership crisis rocking the Allied Peoples Movement (APM) in Bauchi State has taken a fresh turn, with the State Caretaker Committee Chairman, Alhaji Shehu Adaji, dismissing claims to the party’s leadership by the former chairman, Auwal Isah Mai Takalminroba.

Adaji described the former chairman’s recent statements as misleading and unauthorised, insisting that the caretaker committee inaugurated by the party’s national leadership remains the only recognised leadership of the APM in Bauchi State.

Addressing journalists at the party’s secretariat along Yandoka Road, Bauchi, on Thursday, Adaji said the National Working Committee (NWC) and the National Executive Council (NEC), under the leadership of the National Chairman, Alhaji Yusuf Mamman Dantalle, had duly dissolved the party’s entire executive structure in the state, from ward to state levels.

He explained that the decision stripped the former chairman and members of the dissolved State Working Committee of the authority to speak or act on behalf of the party in the state.

According to him, the NWC and NEC, in accordance with the party’s constitution, approved and inaugurated a seven-member caretaker committee on October 27, 2026, with a mandate to administer the party, reconcile aggrieved members and harmonise its structures across the state.

“The committee is firmly in place, actively discharging its constitutional mandate, and remains the sole recognised leadership of the APM in Bauchi State,” he said.

Adaji further disclosed that preparations for ward, local government and state congresses were ongoing, adding that the exercise would produce substantive executives through a transparent, credible and inclusive process.

He urged party members and supporters to disregard what he described as unauthorised pronouncements by individuals seeking to create confusion within the party, reaffirming the caretaker committee’s commitment to party discipline, supremacy and internal democracy.

The latest development is coming against the backdrop of a protracted leadership crisis within the Bauchi State chapter of the APM.

On October 21, 2026, a faction led by the party’s State Secretary, Mohammed Nasir Yahaya, announced the suspension and removal of Auwal Isah as state chairman, accusing him of financial non-accountability, poor record-keeping, operating without an official party bank account and other alleged constitutional violations.

The faction subsequently named Hon. Nasiru Nuru Marafa as interim chairman.

However, Isah rejected the decision, insisting that the faction lacked the authority and recognition to remove him, and threatened legal action.

The crisis later attracted the intervention of the party’s national leadership, which dissolved the entire state executive structure and inaugurated the seven-member caretaker committee on October 27, 2026, to oversee the party’s affairs pending the conduct of fresh congresses.