Alleged bias by Shallom Kassah, the chairman of Guyuk Local Government Area in Adamawa State, has stirred unease in the area. Kassah, a Christian of Lunguda ethnicity, is being accused of undue bias against Muslims and citizens of other ethnicities in the council area.
A group, Guyuk Concerned Citizens, which called a meeting of its members to deliberate on the issue, accused Kassah of ethnic and religious exclusion of a large section of the citizens of Guyuk, a local government area 137 kilometres south of the state capital, Yola. Rising from the meeting, the Guyuk Concerned Citizens said in a statement by its convener, Samson Caleb, that tension is building in the area over the council chairman's disposition.
“This is in addition to the fact that the executive chairman, vice chairman, secretary and chief of staff all come from the same religion and ethnic stock,” he stressed. Guyuk, according to him, has a Muslim population of 40 per cent. He added: 'Despite the fact that Purokayo, Bobini and Bodeno wards are the exclusive domains of Muslims and Hausa/Fulani ethnic stock, the politics of exclusion has ensured that only Lunguda Christians emerged as the councillors of the three wards.
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