JIG as bridge builder for Gombe By Jamila Musa Muhammad

In Gombe state, the situation over the years has not been a bad outing in terms of leadership but the prayer of every Gombite for 2019 is to have the state ranked as the number one in good governance in Nigeria in the nearest future.
Based on competence, ability to mobilize resources for the good of the people, and ability to close the poverty gap through massive human capital investment.
In this regard public opinion has favored Dr Jamilu Isyaku Gwamna (JIG), the emancipator as some call him.
Dr JIG has been termed by many across board as the necessary bridge between Gombe state and good governance in view of his unhidden track records.
Late Kofi Annan, former UN secretary general, defines good governance as the single most important factor in eradicating poverty and promoting development.
For this to happen there must be a courageous human to force good governance into existence as there are more enemies of good governance than friends in contemporary African societies.
JIG has the courage, tenacity and ambitious attitude that are required to integrate the necessities that would make the system of ensuring that the people of Gombe get what they ought to get in education, health, agriculture, social investment.
JIG has proven over the years to be a man that has systematic and institutional approach to issues that concern the public.
According to JIG, when there is a right and people-oriented system in place; it will be easy to get people to align to the right way of doing things to deliver good governance in any society.
The Sardaunan Gombe is a man of principles and a good leader worthy of emulation.
He believes that governance is a product of having the institutions in place to reward and to punish people in power by way of checking financial recklessness and cutting wastages.
In one of the first trip of Barack Obama to African (Ghana) the former US President, canvassed for strong institutions rather than strong individuals to drive the necessary development in Africa.
JIG’s proposed style of building strong institutions in Gombe state is one pointer that he is a leader of digital mind like Obama and one of the very few who has mentally jettisoned the old fashion of governance that enriches leaders while the poverty profile of citizens’ blossom uncontrollably.
If we x-ray the print and electronic media, it will be discovered that people from different quarters in Gombe state and beyond have been making their contributions their piece in support of JIG.
If he wasn’t that good, the good people within and outside of Gombe wouldn’t be publicizing this leader whom many refer to as a man of proven principles to move Gombe to the next level of financially-prudent and fiscally-disciplined state where every loophole as well as wastage is blocked while leveraging on that blockage to have more than enough to channel into aggressive infrastructural development and wealth creation for citizens.
If JIG wasn’t good he would not be getting the amount of supports, he has had when people learnt of his desire to serve his people.
JIG has been serving the good people of Gombe state before now using his personal platform and resources but the clarion call over the years is for an enlarged platform to avail more people to taste what it feels like to have the Sardaunan Gombe as a governor of the state to guarantee an equitable distribution of Gombe resources.
Looking at his plans for agriculture, it is obvious that the Sardaunan Gombe is really the needed bridge between the people and good governance.
If he becomes governor of the state and implements these plans, it means that the story of jobless youths on our streets will become a thing of the past as they would be busy on their farms with their tractors.
This will not only improve the economy of Gombe but guarantee food security not only for Gombe but the nation.
In many developed countries, some leaders are seen to be more visible, more radical, more influential and more efficacious than others because they do not act in isolation in either determining or implementing their policies.
This is the kind of leader that JIG represents.
This style of leadership would bring good governance to the corridors of the good people of the state.
Leadership is about making choices and a good leader may not even personally initiate ideas for change but does recognize one when he hears it from the public.
JIG’s style of interaction with the people will be an advantage when he gets into power as he will make the people critical partners and stakeholders in policy formulation and implementations.
The clamour for JIG who is trusted and whose power is seen to be growing, attracting followers beyond Gombe can only be rewarded if JIG is allowed to become the systemic governor that would serve as the necessary bridge between Gombe state and good governance in 2019.
Muhammad writes from Gombe via [email protected]