Yakubu Dogara, the former speaker of the House of Representatives, has been accused by Bauchi State Governor Bala Mohammed of being an opportunist and a political turncoat.
The governor responded to Dogara’s remarks through his media assistant, Mukhtar Gidado, by calling them hypocritical and pointing out Dogara’s history of betrayal and opportunism in politics.
In the release titled: ‘Dogara’s Opportunistic Diatribe and Hypocrisy’ the Governor stated that, “Those familiar with Rt. Hon. Yakubu Dogara’s penchant for exploiting other people’s misfortune for personal benefit will easily be seen through his latest diatribe against the Bauchi State Governor, Senator Bala Abdulkadir Mohammed.”
Gidado stated: “As usual, the opportunistic political turncoat left the substance of the current national discourse in an ignoble and unpretentious effort to ingratiate himself with a president who, but for providence, would have been a victim of Dogara’s legendary betrayal.”
The statement further read, “All along, Dogara had been looking for an opportunity to retrace his step after abandoning Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu, the candidate of his party in the 2023 presidential elections, for another candidate on the pretext that he was averse to a joint Muslim ticket.”
“Unfortunately for the political con man called Dogara, it was common knowledge that his real reason was the loss of the Vice Presidential slot, which he had severally bragged was already in his kitty. So, what has changed? Or is he now at home with the ticket? Maybe after finding himself adrift due to his inconsistency and treachery,” he added.
“He must be taking the President for a ride. Or how else does one describe a character who accuses the President of masterminding a miscarriage of justice through a subversion of the electoral process?
“When Governor Bala Mohammed was in court after rigging himself into office and desperately needed BAT 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 turned around to describe the President as…”
Gidado added: “Really? What is Dogara telling the public? To the best of our knowledge, the President is neither a judge nor an advocate. What we know and for which we will always commend the President is that there is indeed no evidence that he interfered with the judicial process either for his party or anyone else.
“For Dogara to now suggest that the President helped Governor Bala Mohammed to protect the landslide victory given to him by the Bauchi electorate is the height of political rascality, juvenile recklessness, and unbridled indiscretion.”
“His statement is a slur on the judiciary and the mindless vituperation of a self-seeking scoundrel who has little or no regard for the judiciary. But we can understand Dogara’s predicament, indeed desperation”
“Given that we do not share Dogara’s poverty of the mind, we shall resist the temptation to be drawn into our party member, His Excellency Nyesom Wike’s performance except to remind Dogara that the starting point of any such comparison is to look at the track record of the immediate APC administration vis-a-vis what this PDP loanee to the APC-controlled Federal Government is doing.
“Finally, because Dogara is so consumed with himself that he lacks the presence of mind to appreciate historical currents, he probably forgot that the Buhari APC-led Federal Government had, after unwarranted vilification and persecution, publicly acknowledged that the Land Swap Programme of the Bala Mohammed FCT-Administration was a laudable initiative. We leave Dogara with this parting Bala Mohammed’s successor in the office of minister of FCT, Mallam Muhammadu Bello. His words: “The Land Swap Programme is expected to save the FCT Administration nearly N1 trillion which the Administration would have required to procure comprehensive district infrastructure in the 13 districts earmarked under the programme.
“Developing the city using the annual budgetary allocation is simply not possible because of the way the city has grown astronomically in terms of physical expansion and a rising population.
“Its primary objective in its simplest form includes the encouragement of home ownership and the reduction of housing deficit in the FCT”.
“When it comes to vision and foresight, some people have it. But certainly not self-conceited impostors like Yakubu Dogara. That is why the former Speaker, will never understand the rationale for the flyovers in Bauchi or the remodelled Government House Complex that includes the ultra-modern international conference centre, ICC, with its huge potential for transforming Bauchi State from a small traditional city into a robust melting pot of civilisations, businesses, intellectual intercourse and financial deals.
“It is the prevalence of opportunistic characters like Dogara, masquerading, as opinion leaders and advisers, in the corridors of power, that the country has sunk into the morass that led to the present quagmire and not a statesman, patriot and quintessential administrator like Bala Mohammed whose transformational administration is placing Bauchi State on the path of sustainable development.
