Re: Al-Makura’s team can’t take Nasarawa higher

In fact, in the game of politics, it is common place for players to sound very prolific as if they are professionals, all in a bid to ensure that they either win vacant seats or unseat occupants of such.This must be the reason why Engineer Abdullahi Sule took to the pages of newspapers to “exercise […]

In fact, in the game of politics, it is common place for players to sound very prolific as if they are professionals, all in a bid to ensure that they either win vacant seats or unseat occupants of such.
This must be the reason why Engineer Abdullahi Sule took to the pages of newspapers to “exercise his freedom” and justification for the “temptation” to contest the exalted office of Governor of Nasarawa State. It must be pointed out that Engineer Sule, with all sense of responsibility, is a bonafide citizen of Nasarawa state with the qualification and right to seek any political office in Nigeria, not only that of Governor of Nasarawa State.
In response to a question in an interview granted Weekly Trust on Saturday, July 6, 2013 titled “Al-Makura’s team can’t take Nasarawa higher”, Engineer Suleraised issues which ordinarily would not elicit any reply, but for the purpose of putting the records straight, as overlooking the remarks will imply accepting his ignorant position about the efforts being made by the present administration which he seeks to cheaply run down in order to be an “acceptable alternative”.
Engineer Sule retorted that the “temptation of returning into politics” has to do with the fact that “the state not benefited from being close to the FCT as it continues to witness lack of development”. It is good that the political patriotism in him is being brought out to reason that the state is in dire need for development. What he has refused to bring out is why the situation is so. He portrayed his deceitful character by hiding the truth in not putting the blame squarely on the party “we founded and funded together”, the Peoples’ Democratic Party, PDP. He should have told the world efforts made by his party to bring us to this level of under development after 12years of uninterrupted leadership.
We cannot but agree more with Engineer Sule that “the current governor has done a wonderful and marvelous job” within the 2 years of leading an already dissipated state, courtesy of his collaboration with the party founded and funded by him. The fact that he acknowledged strides made in the state under Governor Al-Makura’s leadership is heartwarming. One must commend his courage in telling the world that he noticed a difference developmentally as opposed to what obtained previously.
His assertion that the Governor has done so based on “his exposure, experience and knowledge” is however not reasonable considering that one is not sure he knows the Governor so well as to reach that conclusion. Even then, we are sure that these qualities were seen in the Governor even before assuming leadership in that position through his investment drive. It may be better with him than Engineer Sule who has nothing to show in Gudi, not to talk of the state. As a Hausa man, Engineer Sule must be home with the adage that says “a good Friday is seen from Wednesday”.
Engineer Sule talks about unemployment, youth employment, industrialization and women empowerment as some of the problems confronting the state and for which he has a magic wand to solving them. While we appreciate his concern on the resources available aside the lean allocation from Federation Account, he cannot talk of improving the situation when youth  and women in his town, Gudi have not been empowered to improve their petty trading(selling pure water, groundnuts, eggs etc) on the Gudi Railway Crossing on the highway between Akwanga and Keffi. If he truly has the state at heart, he should have done something practical to these poor people who are his immediate electorates, by at least establishing a groundnut processing factory here. The fact that he has not told us what he has to offer better than Al-Makura smacks off insincerity.
As to his not believing that the Governor has a team that can take the state to a higher level, one can only pray that Engineer Sule’s belief is anything to be believed. It sounds controversial that he could commend the “wonderful and marvelous job” the Governor has done with his team and yet not believe in them. One is tempted to assume that he is perplexed at the achievements recorded by a team he under rated and thus is scarred that he would not match the records anywhere. Well, he may not be in a position to judge the competence of a team when his own competence too is yet to be felt in any sector, including the African Petroleum, AP where he was a Managing Director, Dangote Sugar Refinery, where he is Managing Director now or even in Gudi.
The politics of exclusion being played by the PDP seem to be what Engineer Sule intends to bring to Nasarawa State. That Nasarawa state is suffering in the hands of PDP led Federal Government simply because the Congress for Progressive Change, CPC, is in power, is unfortunate as Federalism has been grossly misunderstood by a party which calls itself the “largest” in Africa. He clearly admitted this much when he stated that “I also believe that being the opposition governor matters as there would have been a difference, if the situation is not the way it is now”. This may account for why Federal presence has been glaring in terms of projects allocation and execution in a state where the electorate defied the sun and rains to vote in President Goodluck Jonathan. This also implies Nasarawa people (PDP) close to the Presidency are sabotaging the state!
Talaka wrote from Agyaragu, Nasarawa state