‘Your 6yrs in office is visionless, no functional social amenities – Ex-Speaker, Dogara tells Gov. Bala

By: Ajiya Ayuba, Bauchi

The former Speaker of the house of representatives, Mr Yakubu Dogara has accused governor Bala Mohammed of running Bauchi state for the past six years in office without vision and functional social amenities that will benefit the people.

Dogara who made this known in a statement signed and issued to newsmen in Bauchi, said that “Just merely looking at what former Rivers State governor Nyesom Wike achieved in just one year as FCT Minister which totally dwarfed what Bala Mohammed achieved in his 6 years as FCT Minister, is an open rebuke to his inept and visionless leadership which is now self-evident in Bauchi State.

The statement reads in part: “Leader is supposed to nurture and inspire the people he leads into positive action as against indulging in wanton self-adulation and praise”. Bala Mohammed has run Bauchi State for over six years now, with no functional social amenities”

“Bauchi State under him is one of the states with highest number of out of school children in Nigeria, yet he has built no functional school. Also “Bauchi State found itself under his watch, he has built the biggest Government house for himself and his family and the best family house in Northern Nigeria, if not in the whole of the country.

He said that “No doubt these are trying moments in Nigeria; with lots of nerves in the air and lots of spitting into the political wind. The job of leaders irrespective of the political tribe they belong to, is to ensure that we bring this crisis to a responsible end by appealing to Governments at all levels to scramble to meet some of the legitimate demands of the protesters, most especially, hunger and pervasive insecurity in the national interest.

“It is certainly not a time to engage in blowing all the dog whistles at once in the irresponsible manner Gov Bala Mohammed did. For me it didn’t come as a surprise because I had long ago, both in writing and on live TV, denounced him as a thug who speaks in the manner of thugs and understands only the language of thuggery”

He said that governor Bala Mohammed Abdulkadir wants to build flyovers in a city that has no traffic congestion albeit for KEKE and OKADA riders. Adding that “If anyone has ever wondered what the bottom of misgovernance looks like; this is it.

“The irony is that when the youths he has refused to build schools for, who have no access to affordable health care and employment opportunities, chose to revolt, it is PBAT’s policies that is the cause. What a display of ravenously wayward sense of entitlement. Just merely looking at what H.E Nyesom Wike achieved in just one year as FCT Minister which totally dwarfed what Bala Mohammed achieved in his 6years as FCT Minister, is an open rebuke to his inept and visionless leadership which is now self-evident in Bauchi State”

“Governor Bala Mohammed as a renowned crass opportunist knows how to extort and exploit people and situations. I once wrote about this and I quote a line: “so much for the motion on the doctrine of necessity as if some of us didn’t know the events that preceded it and the main drivers of the motion”

“The Governor ought to know or should be told that moving against an ailing and bed ridden President who was desperately in need of prayers instead, in the manner which he did, was not an act of courage but cowardice”

“Let him name any motion he made against the government while late President Umaru Musa Yar’adua was well and in charge. To hit someone who you know will have no chance of hitting back is a master stratagem of a wimp, and only wimps get paid for. After taking up the FCT ministerial portfolio as payment for the hatched job in a manner a hunting dog is served some portion of the meat of its prey, is it not shameful to flaunt the same as an achievement? History has never been kind to those who stabbed the vulnerable.”

“To buttress the point being made, when Gov Bala Mohammed was in court after rigging himself into office and desperately needed PBAT to save him, he was busy singing his praises to the highest heavens and telling the world how amazing PBAT was, not even minding the fact that he is the Chairman of the PDP Governors Forum”

“Just months after PBAT saved him, he has turned around to describe the President as, “now inept, incompetent and incapable of running Nigeria. I will even invite him to chair our 2027 presidential campaigns if he continues this way.” This level of unbridled disrespect is unparalleled. In months, Gov Bala Mohammed has transmutated from being a Hallelujah boy to the undisputed cheer-leader of a pack of wolves who are trying so hard to soil the president beyond redemption”

“It is good that the world gets to know what we are up against in Bauchi State and the price we are paying for foisting a tasteless joke on the state and elevating a cavorting charlatan to the position of a Governor. Dignity still matters in public office and it’s unlikely that Gov Bala Mohammed will ever have it. Yet, his graver vice is cowardice, reflected in a willingness to lie to the public to please and appease, heedless of the inevitability of its contradiction an hour later and the consequences thereof. Right now, he has turned Bauchi state into a prison of mirrors where his revealed lies are answered with new lies. Those who think he misspoke are dead wrong because that is who he has always been and as Maya Angelou said, “

The former speaker of the House of Representatives, Honorable Yakubu Dogara said that “When someone tells you who they are, believe them”. As it is, we wait to see whether the Kaura 2027 his cult followers printed on their gowns will be a political slogan or an expiry date” he stressed.