Barrister Nasiru Aliyu Dan Tsoho, Sokoto State Commissioner for Lands, Housing, Survey, and Town Planning, has decried the poor performance of the immediate-past administration of Governor Aminu Waziri Tambuwal, saying that the government took the state backwards.
Dan Tsoho, in interview with journalists Tuesday, said the eight years of Tambuwal did not deliver democratic gains to the people of the state.
He said Tambuwal shouldn’t have been a local government chairman let alone a governor or President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria.
The commissioner said Tambuwal was unfair to the people of Sokoto state by not leaving records to guide the new government.
He disclosed that the Ahmed Aliyu administration lost valuable time trying to make sense of the activities of its predecessor, given the absence of documentation.
According to him, Tambuwal’s absence and negligence owing to his presidential ambition resulted in challenges for the state, noting that Sokoto state was a stepping stone but he woefully failed to perform.
“Those who want to see the true picture of Aminu Waziri Tambuwal should come to Sokoto state. We will take him or her round and also show them facts and figures, sites and even sounds from the public of his disastrous eight years as governor.
“Whoever wants to see the footprints of the real Aminu Waziri Tambuwal should come to Sokoto state. We will take him round, even to his own hometown of Tambuwal, where he failed to keep his promise to dualise the roads within the town.
“He demolished houses without paying compensation and started the roads like he truly was serious, but as usual he abandoned the construction.
“This impression of Aminu Waziri Tambuwal, former Speaker, House of Representatives, two-term governor of Sokoto state and a serving senator, that you have is different from what Nigerians see and think about somebody who wanted to be president.
“So, if I say that Aminu Tambuwal took the state 20 years backwards it’s not an understatement. Every blessed day my office is like a court room due to the mess he left behind.
“Go to the State High Court and see the number of cases as a result of his multiple allocations. We have settled some cases, especially when they are amenable to reconciliation.
“Another scandalous case is the allocation of the houses in Gidan Salanke Housing Estate, which he met at 70-80 per cent completion.
“But he went ahead to allocate the houses three months before he left the office. So, we are sorting out the mess after which we intend to refund those who cannot be accommodated.”