Sack Distracting Cabinet Members, Focus on Governance, Bauchi Gov Tells Tinubu
Blessing Ibunge in Port Harcourt
Governor of Bauchi State and Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) Governors’ Forum, Senator Bala Mohammed, has advised President Bola Tinubu to focus on governance and remove those he described as excess baggage from his administration.
Mohammed made the call yesterday, while inaugurating the 14.1km Umuakali-Eberi-Omodu Road project in Omuma Local Government Area (LGA) of Rivers State, which was constructed by Governor Siminalayi Fubara’s administration.
“There are those in your cabinet and around you that are both creating bad eggs. They are making you fail, and we don’t want you to fail because we will be affected,” Mohammed told the president.
Mohammed, who advised President Tinubu to be wary of some of the people working with him, said: “In my religion and tradition, we are supposed to pray for leaders because when the leaders are good, the country and the communities will be good. We are still praying that you shine your eyes and throw away those excess baggage and bring good people. We mean well; we are not just criticising; we are trying to say, please correct your ways so that you can succeed. If you succeed, we succeed.”
He expressed joy over the success of governance in Rivers State despite the fierce political antagonism against Governor Fubara.
He said, “My day is made and ended very well for me to have found myself here in the midst of the hope for Nigeria. The hope for Nigeria because of the good governance that is being established. Governor Siminalayi Fubara is not only a simple, sincere, very polite and quiet person, but a performer par excellence.
“Mr. Governor, I am sorry that I underestimated you. When you told me that there is no need to join issues, there is no need to be worried, and that you were never provoked, I have seen the attestation of that today, because in the midst of all the distractions, I have seen work being done.
He noted, “Nigerians have seen the difference between us, the PDP and those in power. The arrogance, the impunity, the name-calling, the grandstanding, the ownership of government and governance as if it is personal.
“We should know the time that we have to leave. We should leave and give chance to those that have come in to perform after us. And not to sabotage, not to do things that have a negative impact on your immediate environment. Doing so is not acceptable to me, and that is why we are parting ways with some people.”
Earlier in his remarks, Governor Fubara, expressed faith and confidence in the nation’s judiciary, saying it remains the last hope of the common man.
The governor expressed appreciation to the judiciary for its assuring strides, and advised Nigerians to keep faith alive and refuse to be swayed negatively by recent happenings.
The Rivers State Governor described the road project as very significant to the people of Omuma because it serves as the most connecting route to more communities in Omuma LGA, and to neighbouring Abia State.
Fubara explained that a major jinx has been broken in the area because it was a place where the development fortunes of the entire area was left in the hands of one member of a community.
He asserted that a diverse number of people are currently being empowered to collectively work together to speed up the rural transformation agenda in the area.
He said: “This local government was under a siege by one person. But today, you can see the liberation. You can even see the excitement in the faces of everyone here. The chairman said it all, and if you could remember when I came for the campaign, I said it. Thank God for social and electronic media that recorded me saying it.”
Governor Fubara said while political opponents had celebrated how they had emasculated his administration, he had quietly worked, executing development projects and achieved landmark transformation of landscapes of communities and the people.
