By Bode Olagoke
Abuja
Bauchi state Governor, Barrister Muhammed Abubakar, has asked the Speaker of the House Representatives, Hon. Yakubu Dogara, to show the world what has been his scorecards since election into the federal legislative arm of government, adding that the Speaker and other members of the National Assembly from the state were not in touch with the people.
The governor, who said he had been vindicated by media report where Dogara admitted that he had not gone home since last December, also accused the lawmakers of brain behind the gang-up and blackmail against the state.
Speaker Yakubu Dogara, according to a media report, admitted and announced that he will be visiting Bauchi state very soon since last December.
Speaking with newsmen onbehalf of the governor yesterday in Abuja, the Senior Special Assistant to the governor of Media and Communication Comrade Mohammed Sabo, said Dogara’s admittance that he doesn’t go home regularly is one of the reasons the lawmakers find it difficult to appreciate the quantum of developmental works going on in the state.
Comrade Sabo said: “We have been saying times without numbers that these members of the National Assembly from Bauchi who gang up, blackmail the state government and governor Abubakar, God has vindicated the governor because one of them Hon. Speaker has said it himself that he does not visit home regularly. And this is what the Governor has been saying that most of these NASS members from Bauchi are not in torch with the people in their respective constituency and that is why thay can not apreciate the quantum of development projects that are onoing in different part of the state by the state governor.
“For example, the governor has awarded contract for almost 400 kilometers, the first of its kind in the history of entire Nigeria hich cut across the three Senatorial district of the state.
“He has constructed more than 600 boreholes across the rural communities of the state notwithstanding the fact that he has reconstruct more than 380 Boreholes that were dilapidated in the last 19 months. This is in addition to over 600 classrooms primary and junior secondary schools across the 20 local governments of the state.”
