KADUNA: A socio-political organisation, Kaduna Central Integrity Group (KCIG) has berated Governor Uba Sani over his alleged media attacks on the Senator representing Kaduna Central Senatorial District, Senator Lawal Adamu Usman.
KCIG said it’s laughable that Governor Sani whose administration in the state since its inauguration on May 29, 2023, had yet to make any meaningful impact on the lives of the electorate in the state and “failed woefully”, would turn around to hide under a “faceless” body to accuse Senator Usman, popular amongst his constituents for his various “unprecedented achievements,” of non-performance.
KCIG wondered how the Uba Sani government in Kaduna State that had been enmeshed in one crisis or the other to the extent of being distracted, would resort to covering its incompetence and inadequacies by going for a Senator whose constituents believe has brought them a big relief from the harrowing experience of the four years when the incumbent Governor Sani represented them in the same Senate without any impact on their lives throughout his four-year tenure.
The KCIG stated this in a statement on Wednesday in reaction to claims by a group, Kaduna Good Governance Monitoring Group (KGGMG) that Senator Usman had failed to adequately represent Kaduna Central Senatorial District and had not delivered on his campaign promises.
But the KCIG, which claimed in a statement jointly signed by its President, Mallam Mohammed Kaulawa-Chikun and Secretary General, Dr Yohanna Matthew Ibrahim, that KGGMG was being used by Governor Sani to attack Senator Usman in the media, added that the “myriads of unprecedented achievements” already recorded by Senator LA in less than two years in the Senate had exposed the incumbent Kaduna governor, who earlier represented them for four years in the National Assembly as a “monumental failure”, given his lackluster performance in his current position as the Governor of Kaduna State.
According to the group, Governor Sani, having failed to record and showcase his achievements while he served as the Senator for Kaduna Central during the 9th Senate, lacks the moral right to call to account the incumbent Senator LA, who they said has been effectively representing them and supplying the dividends of democracy to the people of his constituency in abundance.
Recounting the achievements of Senator Usman in the almost two years of being in the Senate for Kaduna Central, the group said the lawmaker’s achievements in the areas of education, infrastructure, youth and women empowerment have been unprecedented.
The KCIG statement partly read, “Since taking charge as the lawmaker representing the good people of Kaduna Central Senatorial District, Senator LA has been positively touching the lives of his constituents. Of course, according to analysts and watchers of Kaduna politics, with the failure of the “flawed strategies” of his predecessors, particularly Governor Uba Sani, and the meteoric successes Senator LA has recorded within his first 18 months in the National Assembly, it’s easier to concur that he’s been delivering regarding his responsibilities to his constituents in Kaduna Central Senatorial District.
“Moreover, Senator LA, who doubles as the Chairman of the Senate Committee on Education (Basic and Secondary), and Vice Chairman of, the Senate Committee on Banking, Insurance, and Other Financial Institutions, has also, in the past 18 months in the Senate, done so much in raising standards and improving services as well as integrity in these two very important sectors. He alongside his committee had established a robust relationship with the CBN working to stabilize as well as mobilize the fiscal and monetary policies of the apex bank.
“Similarly, in the area of engaging and empowering the people, Senator LA can also raise his shoulders high amongst the lawmakers who have been meeting the expectations of their constituents in this regard.
“So far, he has doled a whopping over N500million to empower no fewer youths and women across his constituency, in fulfillment of his campaign promises to empower the youths and the vulnerable. The beneficiaries who got the sum of N500,000 each as start-up capital were selected from the seven local government areas constituting the Kaduna Central Senatorial District. The Senator has also donated other valuables, including food items and hundreds of sewing and knitting machines, worth over N500million to many widows to assist them in fending for themselves and tackling their financial problems. Senator LA has continued to sponsor people to perform the lesser Hajj in Saudi Arabia to offer prayers for the peace, progress, and unity of Nigeria.
“In continuation of his gesture of payment of tuition fees of indigent students across the state, Senator LA also fulfilled his promise by giving the sum of between N100,000 and N150,000 bursary allowances to over 200 students in the Humanities and Sciences, respectively, across his Senatorial District, having announced the setting aside of N500 million for settling tuition fees for hundreds of students of tertiary institutions in his constituency. Of course, the scholarship given by Senator LA will go a long way in relieving many parents of the financial burden of funding their children’s education.”
The group however noted that rather than Governor Sani sitting down in his office in the state capital to do his duty as the Governor of Kaduna State, he had allegedly become fond of running to Abuja, where he lived permanently in hotel suites, and state officials, including commissioners, were being compelled to take the risk of traveling from Kaduna to Abuja with files to get the governor’s approval for “the smallest thing”.
Bemoaning the fate of Kaduna State, the KCIG rated the performance of Governor Sani as far below the expectations of the people of the state.
The group stated, “Conversely, Governor Uba Sani cannot boast of a fraction of Senator LA’s unparalleled achievements. We, the people of Kaduna Central have weighed Senator LA and the failing Governor Uba Sani, who was our immediate past representative, in the 9th Senate, and we now know the two are parallel lines. We now know Senator LA is far better even within his less than two years, compared to Governor Sani, who represented us for four years but we cannot pinpoint any of his achievements. Governor Uba Sani himself knows he cannot boldly and proudly flaunt any record of achievements while he represented us in the Senate. We, the people of Kaduna Central know that Governor Uba Sani is unnecessarily jealous of Senator LA’s unprecedented achievements within less than two years in the Senate; hence the Governor’s hysteria and sponsored media attacks on the more popular and well-loved Senator.
“Governor Uba Sani, for all we care, is a disaster foisted on Kaduna State. He has no moral right and even the record to accuse someone assiduously working and delivering the dividends of democracy to better the lives of the good people of Kaduna Central, of non-performance, while the Governor himself is known to be carousing in hotels in Abuja with women of easy virtues. Between a working lawmaker and a non-performing and failing Governor, we the people of Kaduna know who is better and desirable.
“Kaduna has been unfortunate to be saddled with a non-performer as Governor Uba Sani. We challenge Governor Sani to flaunt his records of achievements while he represented us in the Senate, if he has any he can be proud and boast of. He’s an unmitigated failure and disaster, even as the incumbent Governor of Kaduna State. This is a Governor who has not deemed it fit to call a State Executive Council meeting since his inauguration in 2023. Ours is a Governor who hardly stays in his office in Kaduna for two full days before running to Abuja. This is a Governor who has the penchant for signing State contracts in his Abuja hotel rooms while carousing with his numerous girlfriends. This is a Governor whose commissioners are forced to carry every file to in his Abuja hotel rooms to get approval for the smallest thing. If anyone is looking for the most incompetent Governor in Nigeria, Governor Uba Sani perfectly fits the bill. It’s a great pity Kaduna State is entrusted in the hands of such a misfit as governor.
“Anyway, now the people of Kaduna State know better and we’re sure they will guide against making the same mistake they made in the 2023 governorship election in 2027.”
