Yakubu Dogara, Speaker of the 8th Assembly, has berated Bala Mohammed, governor of Bauchi state for none performance.
In a statement on Saturday, Dogara said for over six years since the governor came on board, Bauchi state has no functional social amenities.
Dogara who was speaker of the House of Representatives from 2015 to 2019, also lashed at the governor for his recent attack on President Bola Tinubu, noting when the governor desperately needed the President to save him in court after “rigging himself into office,” he sang his praises to high heavens.
Dogara said, as Minister of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Mohammed performed woefully.
He stressed that the performance of the present FCT Minister, Nyesom Wike, within one year, has totally dwarfed Mohammed’s achievements during his six years as FCT Minister.
The former lawmaker lamented that despite abject poverty and squalor in Bauchi state, the governor spent built the biggest government house for himself while his family house is the best in Northern Nigeria.
Accordingly to Dogara, Bauchi state under Mohammed, “is one of the states with highest number of out of school children in Nigeria, yet he has built no functional school.
“Just one example: my Alma Matter,
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.
“Yet in the midst of 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 of the country. Next, he wants to build flyovers in a city that has no traffic congestion, albeit for KEKE and OKADA riders.
“If anyone has ever wondered
how the bottom of misgovernance looks like; this is it.”
The former speaker said further that, “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 (President Bola Ahmed Tinubu) policies that is the cause.
“What a display oř 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 six years as FCT Minister, is an open rebuke to his inept and visionless leadership
which is now self-evident in Bauchi State…”
Part of the statement reads: “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 moved 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 same as an achievement?
“History has never been kind to those who stabbed the vulnerable.
“To buttress the point being made, when Governor 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, Governor 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 Governor 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 mispoke are
dead wrong because that is who he has always been and as Maya Angelou said, ‘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”.
