Finally, after reading so many comments, I have watched some of the interruptions were very rude. I did not expect it and clearly my mentor was taken aback too. His expression of anger was justified, though he beautifully suppressed it and continued with his speech.
The opposition may be right in many things they shouted but the manner they said them, gaskiya, was crude. The President, for example, was innocently listing projects whose contracts were awarded but he would not have cited them as achievements, in my humble opinion, had he known their actual state of execution.
The 150 km Bauchi-Gombe road, which I have been using for 44 years now and my vehicle plies every ten days, is an example. Its rehabilitation was awarded in 2016. When I used it two months ago, only about 7 km was resurfaced, that little too was just outside Alkaleri towards Gombe, a portion that has been a smooth ride for decades, leaving the 60 km where urgent rehabilitation is needed between Alkaleri and Bauchi. I have the pictures in case anyone would deny it.
SOURCE:BULAMA BUKARTI
This inefficiency is today taking place under a person who once presided over the PTF that in a night in 1996 got Julius Berger to re-surface 32 km along Abuja - Lokoja highway. Yes. 32 km, overnight! Please confirm it from Engr. Nura Khalil. Today, his government could not achieve more than resurfacing 7 km in two and a half years, that too only came after protests from Bauchi. What else can better depict the incompetence of his government? Let us be honest.
Transformation
There are many projects awarded since 2016 which have not taken off to date. This is not GMB my mentor. This is PMB, an erstwhile effective person that allowed his government to be sabotaged by provincial ministers like Fashola and Adeosun, who are interested only in developing their region at the expense of others. He is PMB who allowed unprecedented nepotism to eat deep into his flesh of integrity. He is PMB who abandoned his life-long principles for cheap political gains, whose party is impatiently threatening to beat the record of PDP in corruption and deceit in just four, instead of sixteen years.
I write these lines with a deep feeling of delusion and my eyes swelling with tears. Though I foresaw this tragic transformation since 2010 and dared to write about it then, I never thought it will hit me so hard psychologically. A figure that until then I literally idolized since 1975 for his integrity is today condoning the corruption taking place right under his nose and in far away places like Kano, cases proven by victims and journalists beyond the reasonable doubt of anyone with an iota of sincererity and goodwill for this country, allegations his conscience must have told him are true, cases that his EFCC has shamefully failed to take any action on, cases that are daily destroying every bit of his image as Mr. Integrity.
Yes. He is not the GMB that I knew to be very courteous and urbane when dealing with personalities. He is now the PMB that will openly call, for example, the name of Kwankwaso in a public speech before an audience overseas and say he used local government money to finance his presidential ambition, forgetting that he was a beneficiary of that theft having received from it the bullet-proof jeep that God used to save his life in 2014 and another as immediate replacement, not to mention Kwankwaso's contribution to PMB's presidential campaign. Such statements would not have come from GMB but only from the powerful PMB who has replaced integrity with power.
Some of those calling him a liar on the floor of the National Assembly were his APC co-travellers who contributed to his electoral success in 2015 and remained 'saints' until they abandoned the party few months ago. So they know PMB and what is going on in his government by the dual virtues of political association and office. They have, as does the nation, witnessed the self-inflicted demystification of the President and are no longer willing to continue singing his 'integrity' song. They did not receive him with the reverence they accorded him when he first appeared before them in 2015.
Solution, Be Like Shagari
This episode emphasizes the need for PMB and his supporters to moderate their language and approach to politics generally. The APC has today, with its poor performance and record of corruption, emboldened the PDP that it devastated in 2015 with abusive language, claims and promises. As a ruling party today, this aresenal is depleted. It is now a case of the kettle calling the pot black. PDP today, as an opposition, has every right to fight back using the same weapons. In ba kira, me ya ci gawayi?
Yet, it will be better if both sides show decorum in the way they treat each other. The President, as the leader and pacesetter, should abandon the huggish, belligerent, street, propagandist, accusatorial, protestant language of the opposition and start to address the PDP and its members with respect. Otherwise, they will continue to borrow from the street language of those I watched in a Kano rally video, drumming, dancing and singing, "Buhari mai barawo", apparently referring to his continuous consort with Ganduje. The only difference is while this was at a rally in Kano, the legislators are singing theirs on the floor of the National Assembly. The President, who stands to be damaged most, can stop it, however, not by force but by learning to respect his opponents, now that they stand on the same pedestal. It is a game of give and take. He cannot continue to take, take and take respect forever without giving it. Wal ba ni, wal ba ka... He should borrow a leaf from President Shehu Shagari.
Summary
The rich Hausa language has, in just one sentence, a beautiful way of expressing what led to the booing of the President last Tuesday at the National Assembly. It was a case of how time conquers everything:
Yau da gobe mai sa a mari amarya.
Surely, it has conquered my GMB. Nobody, nobody could have booed him. He stood tall above most of his peers. Wallahi, they can only boo PMB.
Dr. Aliyu U. Tilde
21 December 2018
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Shereeff Mustapha Shereeff
U see this is why I don't lyk u kwatakwata bukarty look at urself u r saying wai u have d picture with u this is totally nonsense,u only captured his short comings instead why don't talk about d project he PMB awarded and almost 80% completed useless
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Kamal Ahmad Marzouq
Sir, you said there was no need for PMB to list some of his govt's achievement yet you took up one of them (the Bauchi-Gombe road) to discredit him. I don't know how a president in a democracy can make a budgetary presentation without mentioning some of his achievements. By the way, he didn't mention all of those projects as completed, he categorically mentioned those at various stages of completion, and many of us who travel a lot are witnesses to that. For instance the Sokoto-Tambuwal-Koko-Argungu road, for one, used to be a journey of atleast 10hours, but can now be covered in not more than three hours. As for the Ganduje issue, you know more than we do that a sitting governor has a lot of immunity constitutionally and the best a democratic govt can do is to gather all the evidences and wait for the expiry of such immunity. Fayose is an example. Sir, it is nearly impossible for "GMB" to not compromise, otherwise we wont be calling him PMB today. Imagine if he didn't compromise to accomodate the Tinubus/ACN, the merger wouldnt have seen the light of the day and PDP would have had another fields day in 2015. Finally sir, I believe the transformation from GMB to PMB was a necessary step to overcome the three consecutive 'defeats' before 2015. Sometimes we must give in order to take, we must shift grounds when necessary. Posterity will be just to the honest ones.
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Uba Yakubu
The assumption of most Nigerian especially in core northern Nigeria is that Buhari is like a dime god, that he will reverse the already damaged country over night!, considering the military junta he once governed, dear Dr tilde/ bukarti sir!! If Buhari is lucky to reverse the monumental damage of the past government in two terms of eight years by half, then we are very lucky and proud of him for eternity!!!. Buhari is mortal, human being with his shortcomings and on top of that he is old man of 76!! You and I knew that he is sacrificing his life for all of us!
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Hussain Auwal replied · 3 replies
Sultan AbuBakr Siddeeq
When you meet a BUHARIST with this automated "reasoning" pattern, don't waste your time arguing. Always remember that nothing makes sense to a robot except pre-installed programmes.
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Abdul Sheikh replied · 3 replies
Nuruddeen Shuaibu
Let assume what Dr tilde narrated is a crude truth which i doubt his neutral status, can dr tilde pls pinpoint a single opponent that's just close to the integrity of PMB. Ina gwanin wani ga nawa. The Hausa proverb says: na bayan fili gwani, that's the summary of this write up.
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Hassan Maigari
Say what ever you want say sir, we are still behind PMB, we have confidence in him, than those people(NASS)
7 · Like · React · Reply · Report · Yesterday at 10:04 AM
Marzuk Yusuf
Maganar ka gaskiya ne, Allah yakyauta,Amma haryanzu shidai mukeyi komai zai wuce
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Ahmad Ibrahim Khaleel
for me only PMB, can not the best except with the help Nass, when he passed the budget for Nass budget always stay of up to eight months before the will implement the budget, another case look at the speech of the 3rd citizen bukola saraki he said that hopeless budget were passed through them since PMB can not longer bribe them with money it means there will be no longer work for the budget non of you come out to criticize them, none of you observed that Nass are the causes of PMB, remember this is is civilian administration not military administration to him to used his vectors power to do most of the jobs, the problems PMB is facing is the national assembly, PMB can not bribe them.
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Abdulrahman Babanmairam Ahmed
Yes it is the true reality of the APC led government, but ATIKU is not an option.
2 · Like · React · Reply · Report · Yesterday at 10:26 AM
Ahmad Abdullahi
Some you mentioned is true while other are far from being a facts more especially of looted 44 LG funds by kwankwaso as how and when PMB become beneficiary
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