Former Speaker of the House of Representatives, Yakubu
Dogara, has berated Bauchi State Governor, Bala Mohammed for making a sudden
u-turn on President Bola Ahmed Tinubu.
Dogara claimed that after allegedly rigging his way into
office, Mohammed sought Tinubu’s help to avoid legal trouble while singing the
President’s praises at the time.
Dogara, however, said just months later, the governor has
now labelled Tinubu as “inept, incompetent, and incapable of running Nigeria.”
DAILY POST recalls that Governor Bala Mohammed had
criticised the President’s policies in the wake of the #EndBadGovernance
protest.
Mohammed had berated the Tinubu-led Administration saying
its policies were inflicting hardship on the people.
Mohammed who doubles as the Chairman of the Peoples
Democratic Party, PDP, Governors Forum, the main opposition party in the
country, also urged President Tinubu to change his policies adding that it may
jeopardise his reelection come 2027.
But reacting to the governor’s outburst in a press release
titled “On Governor Bala Mohammed’s Latest Tirade and Truculent Buffoonery,”
the former Speaker stated that the Governor’s recent utterances were uncalled
for and unnecessary.
His words, “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,” he added.
Yakubu Dogara added, “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.”
He stated further, “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.”
Yakubu Dogara stressed that “it is certainly not a time to
engage in blowing all the dog whistles at once in the irresponsible manner Gov.
Bala Mohammed did.”
The former Speaker said, “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.”
“I am penning these lines to further disavow him and to tell
those who don’t know that although Gov. Bala Mohammed is one of us, he is not
all of us. Bauchi State is home to tested leaders who were not raised like
mushrooms and who will not dare speak or operate in a manner that reveals
contempt for rules, precedent, order, stability, and national cohesion. But
Gov. Bala Mohammed does not only do so; he thrives in it,” he added.
According to him, “Not long ago, I said of him, ‘any time
the Governor speaks either by himself or through his aides, it is always an
outburst of profanity which debases and demeans all of us.’”
“A leader is supposed to nurture and inspire the people he
leads into positive action as opposed to indulging in wanton self-adulation and
praise.”
Speaking on the governor’s competency, Dogara claimed Bala
Mohammed had governed Bauchi State for a little over six years with no
functional social amenities.
He said Bauchi under the governor is one of the states with
the highest number of out-of-school children in Nigeria, adding that he has
built no functional schools.
“Just one example: my Alma Mater, the famous Bauchi Teachers
College, located right under his nose, now lies in ruins. Let him tell the
world which of the hospitals in the state is fully functional and how many
doctors he has employed. The list is endless.”
“Yet, amid the destitution and squalor that 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 country,” he added.
“As it is, we wait to see whether the ‘Kaura 2027′ his cult
followers printed on their gowns will be a POLITICAL scandal or an execution
DATE.”
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