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Bukola Saraki's Visit To Borno State Not A 2019 Agenda. by SHOPPERS(m): 9:50am On Aug 20, 2015 |
@BUKOLASARAKI, MODIBBO AND I BY SULYMAN
BUHARI
RECENTLY, Mallam Modibbo Kawu, a columnist
with Vanguard Newspapers wrote an article
entitled, “BUKOLA SARAKI in Maiduguri: Tentative
first steps for 2019 presidency”. For those of us
who know the writer pretty well, that compilation
of fictions, fantasy and alleged hearsays that his
article represents is not unusual. What is strange
is that the desperation of a Modibbo to rubbish
and pull-down everything that involves the Senate
president, Dr Abubakar BUKOLA SARAKI, appears
to be limitless.
For Nigerians who have vague knowledge of the
man, Modibbo Kawu, he is a proud chieftain of
the opposition Peoples Democratic Party (PDP ) in
Kwara State.
In the run up to the 2015 general elections, he did
not only write articles to preach for the
continuation of the era of corruption and
cluelessness under the Goodluck Jonathan-led
administration, he also emerged an accidental
public speaker. Jumping from one youth
programme to elders’ meeting to deliver lectures
on continuity of transformation agenda, perhaps,
after being oiled by his paymasters. He, in
collaboration with his allies, did everything within
his capacity to arrest the change train but Allah
was, and still, on the side of Nigerians whose
resolve for change crushed the shenanigans of
the Modibbo Kawu’s of this world.
Direct reaction
It should, therefore, surprise Kwarans and
Nigerians that the same Modibbo Kawu is now
claming to love President Muhammadu Buhari
more than Senator BUKOLA SARAKI. Haba!
Modibbo’s article is obviously his direct reaction
to the visit of the Senate delegation led by the
Senate President himself to Maiduguri, Borno
State’s capital. It is instructive to note that the visit
was sequel to the resolution of the Senate after
an elaborate debate during its plenary session.
The Senate delegation visited the insurgency
ravaged zone to get an on-spot assessment of the
zone and particularly on conditions of the
Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs). But the only
interpretation of a Modibbo to such visit is an
imagined 2019 presidential ambition. It is yet not
understandable how a supposed columnist will
author an article on such visit without addressing
the widely reported Senate resolution that
birthed the visit, or atleast, mention or
acknowledge it. The article revolves round fictions
and hearsays without any fact whatsoever.
That is bad journalism. Anyway, that is if Modibbo
thinks what he practices is journalism.
It behoves on a Modibbo to tell Nigerians if he is
now a comedian or marabout as he claimed to
know so much about 2019, four years ahead, so
that he can be put where he deserves when it
comes to debates on contemporary issues and
events. I find the reaction of Senate Majority
Leader, Senator Ali Ndume, who himself is from
Borno State, to Modibbo’s diatribe very touching
and important as it underscores the essence of
the visit. He said, “ let it be made clear that we
from Borno State feel very sad that while we
complain that the issue of Boko Haram and the
carnage they are inflicting on our people is not
getting the kind of attention it deserves from key
individuals and non governmental bodies,
somebody still felt we did not deserve the first
visit by a delegation of the Senate in six years
when the Boko Haram problem started.
“The Governor was moved to tears while
addressing our delegation about how the people
feelneglected and how they felt that if the
situation is the zone now were to occur in another
area, the elite from all over the country woulf
have been on pilgrimage there to identify with the
victims. The Governor felt the visit by the Senators
was very inspiring and comforting.
Inspiring and comforting
That is the same visit this columnist who chose to
settle personal scores is trying to rubbish.” Some
people believe Modibbo’s intention is to fuel
crises within the APC family in Nigeria with the
hope of ultimately gaining from it. I do not
disagree. However, whatever might be Modibbo’s
intention(s), it is bound to hit rocks. He
understands.
Not too long ago and before the inauguration of
the eighth National Assembly, the same Modibbo
wrote a piece headlined, “The Nurudeen factor in
Kwara Politics”. The piece was full of half-truths
and lies just as his recent articles. Modibbo must
have been terrified by the seeming clear coast for
the emergence of Senator BUKOLA SARAKI as the
Senate President and he thought, though
unwisely, that fueling a crises between President
Muhammadu Buhari and Senator Saraki would
help his agenda. In the piece, he presented Alhaji
Nurudeen Muhammed, an APC Chieftain and a
former Commissioner for Finance, as the single
most important factor in Kwara politics and by
extension in the overwhelming victory President
Muhammadu Buhari recorded in Kwara State
during the presidential election. Nurudeen is also
a chieftain of the defunct Congress for
Progressive Change (CPC). Modibbo later
embarked on a futile attempt to water down and
rubbish the contribution of Senator Saraki to
President Buhari’s victory. As usual, I dismissed
the piece as the writer’s regular lies.
As the pioneer State Chairman of Congress for
Progressive Change (CPC) in Kwara State and a
person who God used to lay the foundation and
build the structure of CPC in Kwara State, I know
quite well and I am in the position to know. The
same Nurudeen who Modibbo claimed was
responsible for Buhari’s victory worked tirelessly
to ensure the emergence of a presidential
aspirant and former governor of Kano State,
Senator Rabiu Musa Kwankwaso as the
presidential flag bearer of APC while Senator
Saraki mobilised party delegates across the North
Central states to massively vote for President
Muhammadu Buhari at the presidential primary
election held in Lagos.
The same Nurudeen was even reported to have
got juicy contracts from the presidential aspirant
he supported. Nurudeen knows the facts and the
facts can not be denied. This short reference is a
peep into the world of a Modibbo. Modibbo’s
recent article should not have been found on the
pages of a reputable Vanguard Newspaper. It fails
all parameters of responsible journalism. It is
now crystal clear that a Modibbo hates Senator
Saraki as much as he envies the same Saraki. He
has only deployed Vanguard Newspapers as a
tool to advance his hatred.
Trend of hatred
The management of Vanguard Newspapers
should do a thorough and professional review of
all articles written by Mr Modibbo Kawu as related
to Senator Saraki, a trend of hatred and pattern
of sheer jealousy that negate the concept of
public trust will be established. When a supposed
columnist continually subjects his platform to
public ridicule and odium, it calls for serious
concern and he constitutes a threat to such
platforms. Like Senator Ndume rightly noted,
newspaper columnists are “trustees for the public
by the virtue of their access to newspaper pages
and that they do not abuse the public trust”.
No matter what a Modibbo writes about Senator
BUKOLA SARAKI, it little matters. He wrote stories
against Senator Saraki before he became the
governor of Kwara State in 2003 and Modibbo,
obviously, has not stopped. A Modibbo has done
worse things.
He has not only breached public trust with his
fictions and lies, he has also deployed falsehoods,
fictions, fantasy and distorted accounts to portray
Senator Saraki as evil. Modibbo deserves no
Vanguard Newspapers again. Vanguard
Newspaper itself must take decisive actions if it
desires to be taken serious by the people of
Kwara State and Nigerians.
Sulyman Buhari is the Publicity Secretary of All
Progressives Congress in Kwara State Source: https://www.facebook.com/Kwara247/posts/419994431517874 1 Like 2 Shares |
Re: Bukola Saraki's Visit To Borno State Not A 2019 Agenda. by saliukadri: 11:13am On Aug 20, 2015 |
Modibbo is just looking for attention. He wants to use Senate President Saraki, to get popularity. Pity. Others have tried with various forms of criticism but failed and he is also on the same lane. |
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