Several voters in Bauchi State will make their decisions about who to elect into various positions based on what they have heard preached in their respective worship centres. The religious metric has been condemned and described as divisive, but it still plays out in the political decision-making of some congregations led by their leaders. Prior to the 2011 elections in Nigeria, clerics particularly in the north had their preferred presidential candidate General Mohammadu Buhari who sought a presidential seat under the defunct Congress for Progressive Change (CPC).
Several communities in Bauchi State such as Wunti Dada, Gudum Hausawa, Gudum Sayawa, Rafin Makaranta, Turum, and Inkil are presently without potable water, despite being supposed beneficiaries of the N20 billion water project sponsored by the World Bank. The water project was aimed at improving water supply in the Bauchi metropolis and a few adjoining villages but the story remains the same for many communities in the state capital, the seat of government.
A Bauchi-based human rights organization, Council for Affirmative Action has tasked the Bauchi State Command of the National Drugs Law Enforcement Agency