The presidential campaign rally of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) in Bauchi State ended in confusion Monday as President Muhammadu Buhari could not speak to the crowd due to system failure.
Buhari was at the Abubakar Tafawa-Balewa Memorial Stadium, Bauchi for the presidential campaign rally, but a faulty sound system messed up the programme.
The electricity supply at the stadium went off shortly after the party’s National Chairman Senator Abdullahi Adamu alongside President Muhammadu Buhari, presidential candidate of the APC, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu and others mounted the podium and began delivering his speech.
Following the situation, Buhari had to leave immediately with his entourage without delivering his speech.
The president, who was visibly angry, joined Senator Adamu to present the party’s flag to the gubernatorial candidate in Bauchi State, Ambassador Saddique Baba Abubakar.
Political urchins had a field day as they vandalized facilities at the stadium, carting them away while the security operatives looked on helpless and could not stop them.
Buhari had arrived Bauchi to lead the APC presidential and governorship campaign rally as the aircraft conveying him and his delegation touched down at the Sir Abubakar Tafawa Balewa airport, Bauchi around 10:20 am.
He was received by the Bauchi State Governor, Bala Mohammed, who is the Peoples Democratic Party’s candidate and his opponent in the March 11 governorship election, Air Marshal Sadique Abubakar.
Others at the airport to receive the President were the APC party chairman, Abdullahi Adamu; Director-General of the APC Presidential Campaign Council and governor of Plateau State, Simon Lalong; Senate President Ahmad Lawan; Speaker of the House of Representatives, Femi Gbajabiamila; former Chief of Defence Staff, Gen. Abdulrahman Danbazzau; Senator Andy Ubah, Governors of Borno, Kebbi and Yobe states, Babagana Zulum, Abubakar Bagudu and Mai Mala Buni, respectively.
The president had proceeded to the Palace of the Emir of Bauchi, Dr Rilwanu Adamu, on a courtesy visit and thereafter headed to the Sir Tafawa Balewa Stadium, venue of the rally.