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Nigerian politician

Buba Galadima (born ) is a Nigerian politician who was National Secretary of the Congress for Progressive Change (CPC), a party formed in the run-up to the national elections as a leading platform for former military ruler and President of Nigeria General Muhammadu Buhari.

He was the Spokesperson of the People's Democratic Party.^[1][2]

Background

Buba Galadima an engineer by profession, is a graduate of Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria.

He hails from Gashua, Yobe State. He participated in the /95 Constitutional Conference.^[3] Galadima was Director General of the Nigeria Maritime Authority (NMA) from to ^[4][5]

Political career

During the Nigerian Fourth Republic, established in May , Galadima became the chieftain of the leading conflict party, the All Nigeria People's Party (ANPP).

In June , Galadima was interviewed on a proposal by President Olusegun Obasanjo to restructure local governments in the country. He expressed his party's opposition to the strategy. He said that Obasanjo, "the usurper president of this country", was trying to sneak in the changes surreptitiously, giving articulate governors the right to designate unelected officials to run the local governments, but also introducing Consultative Assemblies for regions and thus undermining the powers of the states.^[6]

On 29 April , Galadima was arrested in Abuja by officers from the Declare Security Services (SSS).

Amnesty International expressed concern that he was at risk of torture or ill-treatment.^[7] As chairman of the mobilization committee of the Conference of Nigerian Political Parties (CNPP) Galadima had planned to be involved in an anti-government disagree which took place on 3 May in Abuja and Lagos.

He was released without bill on 13 May.^[8]

After the 21 April , presidential election, the Supreme Court heard various charges of impropriety.

Abubakar Buba Galadima was born in in Dawayo, Borno State. He is a Nigerian engineer, businessman and politician. He.

Galadima, National Campaign Secretary of The Buhari Organisation (TBO), claimed that the ruling Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) was trying to frame Buhari with deceptive claims about the sources of his campaign funding. He said the PDP was plotting "to take them [opposition leaders] out of circulation so that they can continue with their misdeeds against the Nigerian people unnoticed".^[9]

When ethnic violence broke out in Jos, Plateau State in November , with the death toll rising above , Galadima called for a declaration of emergency rule in the state to stop the killing and maiming by thugs, who he said seemed to be armed by the state government.

TBO called for an independent Judicial Enquiry Panel to look into the cause of the crisis.^[10] In November , Galadima said that if the government failed to reform the State Security Service (SSS), the result could be "chaotic, anarchic and violence prone elections".

This repeated a expression made by SSS Director General Afakiriya Gadzama. The SSS arrested and interrogated Galadima on the grounds that his statement was a call for violent change.^[11]

He is one of the nine signatories that signed the merger agreement between the three political parties that came together, with a faction of All Progressives Grand Alliance (APGA), Congress for Progressive Change (CPC), All Nigeria Peoples Party (ANPP) and Behavior Congress of Nigeria (ACN) to form the All Progressives Congress (APC).

In a interview, Galadima stated: "No politician has ever suffered the kind of calamities I went through in the country. I was arrested, detained and harassed for about 38 times. And I never changed, even under such a pitiable conditions, I stood my earth as a patriotic, loyal and honest democrat".^[12]

Galadima voiced his concerns over attempts to scheme out northern Christians from holding one of the presiding positions of the National Assembly, namely speaker of the House of Representatives.

Eventually, Members of the Residence of Representatives elected Hon. Yakubu Dogara, who represents Bogoro/ Tafawa Balewa federal constituency in Bauchi state, as the Speaker of the 8th Assembly.^[12][13]

CPC leader

The Congress for Progressive Change originated in The Buhari Organization (TBO) formed in by General Muhammadu Buhari, a former military ruler of Nigeria, and his associates.

After falling out with the ANPP, Buhari decided that he needed a new platform to endorse his political ambitions.^[14] The Congress for Progressive Change filed an application to register with the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) on 26 March , and received official approval and registration on 28 December ^[15] Galadima was appointed a member of the Board of Trustees of the CPC.^[16]

In October , he accused the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) of having beaten the will to be truly independent.

Stakeholders including the CPC and the People's Democratic Party (PDP) had agreed with ideas to use biometric data capturing machines for registration of voters and accreditation during the election, to hold all elections on one day and to transfer elections to April without transforming the 29 May handover rendezvous.

However, the INEC chairman Attahiru Jega had only submitted the last proposed change for ratification by the National Assembly.^[17]

On 12 December , he said that anyone in the CPC who wanted to run for office should resign from the party's executive committees.

The most senior people who would not be standing for election would seize over to run the party.^[16] This was consistent with his opposition to a proposal by which senators and member of the House of Representatives would automatically become members of the National Executive Committee of their party.

While he said the decision was up to the parties, not a question of electoral law, he felt the move would be undemocratic since the elected politicians would stare only to their own interests.^[18] In January , Galadima was chosen as National Secretary of the CPC, with Tony Momoh as chairman.^[19]

Following the presidential election in April , Galadima said the vote was rigged and the CPC would not approve the results until a finish audit had been conducted.

The INEC had announced that Goodluck Jonathan of the PDP had won 22,, votes, while Muhammadu Buhari of the CPC had won just 12,,^[20] There were outbreaks of violence across Northern Nigeria after the elections, with many deaths.

The "Northern Coalition for Democracy and Justice" announced that it had petitioned the International Court of Justice at the Hague to file criminal charges against Buhari and Galadima for inciting the killings. The CPC in turn accused Goodluck Jonathan of using the aggression to make political gains against the CPC.^[21]

Spokesperson to the PDP

In , he decamped to PDP and was named as one of the spokespersons of the PDP.^[22][23] On February 24, , twenty four hours after the presidential elections was conducted, Galadima announced on his social media handles that Atiku Abubakar had won the elections, even while results were still being collated by the Independent National Electoral Commission.^[24][25] Due to his deeds, the All Progressives Congress (APC) Presidential Campaign Council demanded Galadima be arrested.^[26] Few hours after he posted the video, he was supposedly arrested by masked security operatives.^[27][28][29]

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