Ishola Michael – Bauchi
Reelected Bauchi State Governor, Bala Mohammed Abdulkadir has assured that his administration will not capitulate to the low impulses of opponents, nor would it be distracted from the commitment to ensuring that Bauchi’s wheel of progress is not being obstructed.
The Governor was reacting to events following his declaration by INEC as the winner of the last week’s governorship election.
Bala Mohammed said, “I state this against the background of a highly provocative and disrespectful statement credited to one of my opponents. If the content of the statement had been limited to the false claim that the election was rigged, it would have been appropriate to simply ignore it.”
“However, the author who was decisively rejected by the voters threw every canon of decency to the wind in abusing the Governor of the state, indicting the security agencies and insulting the electorate for refusing to be hoodwinked by a false sense of love and pecuniary considerations,” he said.
The Governor added, “I can understand the refusal of people who were never schooled in the tenets of democracy refusing to accept that the voters do not follow orders in choosing their leaders. I can sympathize with people whose over-bloated ego precludes them from accepting defeat.”
He also said, “I can understand the disappointment of those whose pre-election utterances bothered on playing God but who have now been compelled to swallow the bitter reality that power belongs to God. But I cannot understand desperation and lies.”
According to him, “We went into the elections without the security paraphernalia boasted or brandished by some of our opponents; we went into the elections without the resources, both internal and external that our opponents mustered, we went into the elections without any godfather, let alone an Armada of “kingmakers” who arrogated to themselves the power to make and unmake leaders.”
He said, “Rather, we went into the elections trusting in Allah, who gives power to whom he chooses and takes it away from whom he chooses. It was in realization of the omnipotence of Allah that I pledged, on the eve of the election, to accept the outcome of the exercise. Even now, I reiterate that position.”
The Governor advised that election should not be a matter of life and death, similarly, holding public office should not be the only way to serve the people.
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