In his recent analysis, the deputy editor of an online
publication ‘Daily Nigerian’ Abbas Yunusa has mentioned some APC
governors in some the northern states that may likely lose the 2019
re-election bid. The writer vividly attributed his assertion to
intractable internal differences, disloyalty and simmering
disagreement in the party in the seven states.
The good thing about it all is the write-up is no more than the
opinion of an individual, and his motive could well be
questionable. In a similar manner, someone could choose to pick out
those same states, namely Kaduna, Kano, Kogi, Katsina, Benue,
Jigawa and Bauchi and say they stand the best chance of winning the
2019 election and justify it. It all boils down to power of
argument and personal opinion. Interestingly, all the states
mentioned are being governed under the APC political family.
However, it might be an energy and time burn up scenery to
respond to the issues raised but it has become compelling and de
rigueur to clear some points attributed to the present Government
Bauchi State because all the allegations and allusions directed at
the administration of Governor Muhammad Abdullahi Abubakar failed
in all elementary indices of objectivity, substance, factual
presentation and political accuracy, lending credence to the
suspicion that the testimonies was a crude hatchet job meant to
satisfy the whims and caprices of certain shadowy crips and foes of
the government in power.
Based on the writer’s opinion and the responses of the people he
interviewed, it was alleged that, the governor isn’t level-headed,
has a loggerhead with the national assembly members, his appointees
fomenting problems for him, the Yusuf Tugga factor, salaries
verification, pension, arrears, and odds and ends matters. It is
only a mischievous observer or unreconstructed pundit can accused
Gov. Abubakar of being not level-headed non-performance and failure
to deliver crucial democratic dividend to the people as the record
are there for the whole world to see as evidence and proof of his
sterling achievements in the developmental and infrastructural
arena are abundant and visible throughout the length and breadth of
the ‘Pearl of Tourism’ state.
Interestingly and accordingly, it was reported that the governor
don’t have problem but his appointees and if that was taken as a
threat to his reemergence in 2019, the governor’s cabinets have
been recently dissolved including special advisers. While the issue
of verification which was evidently and deliberately over flogged
has since been settled with the payment of the outstanding one
month salaries being owed by the state government workers and the
two months owed by the local government staffs of the state.
Howbeit, it was done in a very good faith and for the benefit of
not only the civil servants whose salaries were previously delayed
and accumulated as backlogged during the erstwhile regime of Gov.
Isa Yuguda but to the entire people of Bauchi State whose funds
have been siphoned through the orchestrated ghost workers and
padded vouchers.
It requires a bold mind and committed leader to get Bauchi State
out of the woods and to Gov. Abubakar, where a serious business of
governance and state development needs bold steps; level-headiness
is an alien word which is only applicable in a comfort zones. And
it will interest all to know that, Bauchi State under the
leadership of M.A Abubakar has settled the backlogged of salaries
he inherited from the previous administration while some states
including the oil rich are battling with salaries nest eggs even
after receiving huge sum from the bailout and excess crude
savings.
On the widely reported cold to full-fledged war between the
governor and Hon. Dogara, Gov. Abubakar has said it on several
occasions that he wasn’t in government to fight but to deliver the
dividends of democracy to the good people of Bauchi State and
anything short of that, he should be counted out. Therefore, the
political jobbers and political apple-polishers who seem to be
igniting the flame of discord to gain out of it should seek for
another avenue as those who gave both the governor and speaker
their respecting mandates are expecting a return in their political
investment than any political cacophony and as far as he’s concern,
he has done much to the people of Bauchi State to justify his
re-election.
At the same time Gov. Abubakar is reversing the long years of
neglect of the critical sector of infrastructural development cum
roads construction by initiating tens of thousands of kilometres of
macadamized roads of the best quality to link the urban townships
with the rural areas as this is crucial to the movement of goods,
services and persons that will go a long way in spurring fast track
economic development while acting as a catalyst for rapid
industrialization and commercialization of population centres
within and outside the state, others are busy playing newspaper
politics that’s far from the reality.
Laughable enough for someone to consider Yusuf Tugga as threat
to Gov. Abubakar because even as at the time he was in the CPC, he
never won the gubernatorial ticket but got it through connivance
with few self-centered party officials vegging out in Abuja. He
wasn’t on ground as far as Bauchi politics is concern and that was
the reason he tried to adopt the same tricky strategy in APC and it
fails and his promulgated popularity starts and ends in Abuja and
the pages of newspapers but not in the state.
However, rather than engaging in endless blame game scenarios
that would do nobody any good, resilient Gov. Abubakar, took the
decisive steps of entrenching good governance through his policies
and strategies which is geared towards economic revivals of the
state as he has not allowed grass to grow under his feet because
apart from infrastructure, he has moved into other critical sectors
like education, health, agriculture, power, water provision,
manpower development and women and youth empowerment. Therefore,
nothing can change the facts on the ground not even the
disgruntled, mischievous and patently biased ranting pundits
– Lukman is S.A Communication to the
Governor
In his recent analysis, the deputy editor of an online
publication ‘Daily Nigerian’ Abbas Yunusa has mentioned some APC
governors in some the northern states that may likely lose the 2019
re-election bid. The writer vividly attributed his assertion to
intractable internal differences, disloyalty and simmering
disagreement in the party in the seven states.
The good thing about it all is the write-up is no more than the
opinion of an individual, and his motive could well be
questionable. In a similar manner, someone could choose to pick out
those same states, namely Kaduna, Kano, Kogi, Katsina, Benue,
Jigawa and Bauchi and say they stand the best chance of winning the
2019 election and justify it. It all boils down to power of
argument and personal opinion. Interestingly, all the states
mentioned are being governed under the APC political family.
However, it might be an energy and time burn up scenery to
respond to the issues raised but it has become compelling and de
rigueur to clear some points attributed to the present Government
Bauchi State because all the allegations and allusions directed at
the administration of Governor Muhammad Abdullahi Abubakar failed
in all elementary indices of objectivity, substance, factual
presentation and political accuracy, lending credence to the
suspicion that the testimonies was a crude hatchet job meant to
satisfy the whims and caprices of certain shadowy crips and foes of
the government in power.
Based on the writer’s opinion and the responses of the people he
interviewed, it was alleged that, the governor isn’t level-headed,
has a loggerhead with the national assembly members, his appointees
fomenting problems for him, the Yusuf Tugga factor, salaries
verification, pension, arrears, and odds and ends matters. It is
only a mischievous observer or unreconstructed pundit can accused
Gov. Abubakar of being not level-headed non-performance and failure
to deliver crucial democratic dividend to the people as the record
are there for the whole world to see as evidence and proof of his
sterling achievements in the developmental and infrastructural
arena are abundant and visible throughout the length and breadth of
the ‘Pearl of Tourism’ state.
Interestingly and accordingly, it was reported that the governor
don’t have problem but his appointees and if that was taken as a
threat to his reemergence in 2019, the governor’s cabinets have
been recently dissolved including special advisers. While the issue
of verification which was evidently and deliberately over flogged
has since been settled with the payment of the outstanding one
month salaries being owed by the state government workers and the
two months owed by the local government staffs of the state.
Howbeit, it was done in a very good faith and for the benefit of
not only the civil servants whose salaries were previously delayed
and accumulated as backlogged during the erstwhile regime of Gov.
Isa Yuguda but to the entire people of Bauchi State whose funds
have been siphoned through the orchestrated ghost workers and
padded vouchers.
It requires a bold mind and committed leader to get Bauchi State
out of the woods and to Gov. Abubakar, where a serious business of
governance and state development needs bold steps; level-headiness
is an alien word which is only applicable in a comfort zones. And
it will interest all to know that, Bauchi State under the
leadership of M.A Abubakar has settled the backlogged of salaries
he inherited from the previous administration while some states
including the oil rich are battling with salaries nest eggs even
after receiving huge sum from the bailout and excess crude
savings.
On the widely reported cold to full-fledged war between the
governor and Hon. Dogara, Gov. Abubakar has said it on several
occasions that he wasn’t in government to fight but to deliver the
dividends of democracy to the good people of Bauchi State and
anything short of that, he should be counted out. Therefore, the
political jobbers and political apple-polishers who seem to be
igniting the flame of discord to gain out of it should seek for
another avenue as those who gave both the governor and speaker
their respecting mandates are expecting a return in their political
investment than any political cacophony and as far as he’s concern,
he has done much to the people of Bauchi State to justify his
re-election.
At the same time Gov. Abubakar is reversing the long years of
neglect of the critical sector of infrastructural development cum
roads construction by initiating tens of thousands of kilometres of
macadamized roads of the best quality to link the urban townships
with the rural areas as this is crucial to the movement of goods,
services and persons that will go a long way in spurring fast track
economic development while acting as a catalyst for rapid
industrialization and commercialization of population centres
within and outside the state, others are busy playing newspaper
politics that’s far from the reality.
Laughable enough for someone to consider Yusuf Tugga as threat
to Gov. Abubakar because even as at the time he was in the CPC, he
never won the gubernatorial ticket but got it through connivance
with few self-centered party officials vegging out in Abuja. He
wasn’t on ground as far as Bauchi politics is concern and that was
the reason he tried to adopt the same tricky strategy in APC and it
fails and his promulgated popularity starts and ends in Abuja and
the pages of newspapers but not in the state.
However, rather than engaging in endless blame game scenarios
that would do nobody any good, resilient Gov. Abubakar, took the
decisive steps of entrenching good governance through his policies
and strategies which is geared towards economic revivals of the
state as he has not allowed grass to grow under his feet because
apart from infrastructure, he has moved into other critical sectors
like education, health, agriculture, power, water provision,
manpower development and women and youth empowerment. Therefore,
nothing can change the facts on the ground not even the
disgruntled, mischievous and patently biased ranting pundits
– Lukman is S.A Communication to the
Governor
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