By Najib Sani
Bauchi
Senator Ali Wakili, representing Bauchi south at the National Assembly has lamented that the perpetual animosity between the state Governor Mohammed Abubakar and National Assembly members from the state might not end or take a long time before it could be resolved, alleging that the governor was not ready for reconciliation with them.
Speaking with journalists in his Bauchi residence, Wakili expressed disappointment with the way and manner the governor was handling the issue, alleging that Abubakar has continued to incite people against the law makers.
“He sent three prominent Emirs from the state to wade into the issue and ensure that all the differences are being mended. The following day he gathered people from Bogoro, Dass and Tafawa federal constituency, our main base and denounced Speaker House of Representatives Yakubu Dogara, denounced me, denounced Hon Aminu Tukur and Hon Maryam Bagel, members of the Bauchi state House of Assembly. You don’t do reconciliation like that”, he said.
According to him, the governor’s aides have allegedly been using provocative words against them right in front of him, “one of them spoke about the farm belonging to one us in Nasarawa state, while addressing me an ex-corrupt Custom Officer.
He incited the people at Mararaba against Hon Maryam Bagel, that if she passed through the way, people should not allow her to go free. If yo have chosen to send some people to us for reconciliation then you should restrain your utterances.
“I think he is talking from an inferiority complex. No one among us doubted him as the governor. No one has said that he is not the governor, but what we are saying; we have differences in the position of our people which is quite different from personality.
“Personality would come and go, but the office remains and sometimes, personality determines the office. By the time you carry the office with decorum, everybody is going to respect you, but when you think that you are superior to everybody, it means you have a complex that you, yourself, think you are not fit to be there”.
