Bauchi State Governor, Bala Mohammed, on Monday met behind closed doors with President Muhammadu Buhari at the Presidential Villa, Abuja...
Bauchi State Governor, Bala Mohammed, on Monday met behind closed doors with President Muhammadu Buhari at the Presidential Villa, Abuja.
A raging controversy has trailed establishment of Ruga settlements by the Federal Government across the country. According to him, Bauchi State needed the Ruga project because the population of the state currently was about 60 to 70 percent Fulani.He said “60 or 70 percent of the population in Bauchi are Fulanis and therefore we must leverage on all these.”He said that he was at the Villa to confer with the President on some of the insecurity challenges facing the state.
Even he was elected on the platform of the People’s Democratic Party , he said, “I am the leader of the people many consider more APC than PDP.”
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