Tinubu is taking Nigeria to a road of perdition & destruction as he has no clear cut vision—Governor Bala Mohammed
Bauchi State Governor, Senator Bala Mohammed, has opined that the administration of President Bola Tinubu has no clear-cut vision on how to lead Nigeria and as a result, “they are always taking us to a road of perdition and destruction.”
He specifically said that Tinubu came to office Ill prepared without a blueprint or a manifesto adding that he is surrounded by people who are “misfits.”
The Governor said this while answering questions from journalists when he received the Founder and General Overseer of Omega Fire Ministry, Apostle Johnson Suleiman, who paid him a courtesy visit at the Government House, Bauchi on Wednesday, during his two days crusade in the State.
He reiterated that he has no personal grudge against the President whom he noted he has so much respect for, but was only against policies introduced by his (Tinubu’s) administration which will have negative consequences on the people.
“First of all, I want to seize this opportunity to clarify in the presence of a Man of God, Apostle Johnson Suleiman, I don’t have any personal grudge against the President. I am one of those who respect the institution of leadership, especially that of the President. You know my antecedents in the Senate when I rose for the Doctrine of Necessity. It was to dignify that office of the Vice President, where my boss (Goodluck Jonathan) became the President.
“On the contrary, I respect President (Bola) Tinubu so much. But someone must rise to the occasion and tell him the truth that he is surrounded by misfits and I can now understand from the Man of God, definitely, he (Tinubu) came into governance ill prepared, without an agenda and without a manifesto.
“We believe so much in him because of his pedigree and antecedents as a Lagos State Governor who was able to do the magic. I was jumping when he became the President even though from a different party. I thought the Uhuru had come, but I have seen freedom and development eluding us and I must advise as a statesman, as a responsible citizen, as a head of a sub-national, that you cannot stifle the aspiration of Nigerians by making all the citizens of Nigeria just customers in a bid to actualise your aspiration.
“We should see Nigerians as citizens not as customers, we should not bring policies that will divide us, we should live and let live. We should respect our diversities. We should not practice impunity where people feel that they are short changed, we should practice inclusivity the way Prophet Suleiman is going around, a global icon, a universal preacher, a young person who has risen to the occasion going to all the nooks and crannies. He heard voices from doubting Thomases but he still came to Bauchi,” he said.
Continuing, the Governor said: “That is why I want the President to believe me, I mean well. I’m just trying to say that, in your governance, you can do it better by accommodation, by inclusion and by coming up with a strict vision where you want to take Nigerians to. It should not a fire brigade approach where you will be running after policies and programmes that are alien to us that are not understood and may be misconstrued.
“And because they don’t have any clear-cut vision, they are always taking us to a road of perdition and destruction. And that is why when I talk, I talk about the tax, it is not because I don’t want reforms, but I want a reform that will have a positive impact on us. I don’t have anything against the President other than respect.”
Also answering questions from journalists on the suffering of Nigerians as a result of the leadership of the current APC-led government, Apostle Suleiman said that what Nigerians are passing through serves them right saying they got what they deserve.
According to him, President Tinubu came into office without a blueprint and so cannot be held accountable for any promise he made to Nigerians during the election.
He said: “What Nigerians are going through is partly what they deserve. In the sense that, before the election, we cried out, we spoke, we screamed, we yelled, because when somebody comes into leadership and there is no single manifesto. All the man said was ‘it’s my turn’, there is nothing you can hold against him because there was no manifesto. He never said that he was coming to do this or that.
“We can see that somebody got into power and Nigeria is in their hands and they actually do not know what to do with. I think the next 10-15 years, I don’t think Nigeria will recover from the damage that was done to the oil sector. The tax is what people were falling back on, now it has been tampered with.
“So, all Nigerians have to do is to resort to prayers. 2027 is coming, if they’ve suffered enough, they’ll make a good choice.”
When asked what his advice for the President and his team is, he simply said: “nothing.”
Speaking on the purpose of his visit to the State, he said he was fulfilling a biblical injunction which mandates Christians to spread the gospel of Christ to the world.
