By Suzan Edeh

Bauchi—Barely four months of the All Progressives Congress, APC administration in Bauchi State, indications have emerged that there all is not well between the executive and legislative arms of government, following an allegation of N4 billion loan collected by Governor Mohammed Abubakar.

A reliable source in state House of Assembly said on the governor’s assumption of office, he collected the said loan  when both the state assembly and the state executive council were yet to be constituted.

Bauchi State Gov, Mohammed Abubakar

It was gathered that apparently miffed by this development, the governor allegedly dodged the lawmakers in a meeting on the matter.

It was further gathered that the lawmakers are allegedly scheming to impeach the governor, despite the intervention of the state chairman of APC.

One of the principal officers of the state assembly who did not want his name in print, said the governor had committed an impeachable offence to have collected such a loan as well as his journey to Czech Republic, adding that these actions undermined the principles of good governance.

He stressed that  the state House of Assembly  had made frantic efforts to convene a meeting with the governor, but to no avail as the governor  was allegedly dodging them.

“As I’m talking to you now, we can no longer fold our arms and watch the governor contravene the democratic norms regarding the functions of the three arms of government.

“The governor had told the house that the outgoing Assembly approved the loan on May 29, which was the day the governor was sworn into office,” he said

Unconfirmed reports further disclosed that the governor had allegedly offered N15 million to each of the lawmaker to sweep the matter under the carpet.

But Speaker of Bauchi State House of Assembly, Kawuwa Shehu Damina, debunked the allegation, saying there was no rift between the legislative and the executive arms of government.

He said there was never a time the legislators were approached to collect any sum in a bid to bury an attempt to impeach the governor and attributed same to the saboteurs of APC administration.