Government is second only to God Almighty. Rt. Hon. Bathiya Wesley is in government, not only as a member representing us, but as Speaker of the house of assembly. As speaker, he is technically the number 2 citizen of Adamawa state. The deputy governor being number 2 is just ceremonial because vital decisions concerning the state is taken by the governor and the speaker. Even for this, he deserve full respect from every citizen of Hong LG. I see some people are ignorant of this.

Launching a campaign of calumny against the person of Mr. Speaker to the point of leveling such grievous unsubstantiated allegations on him amounts to challenging the judgement of the millions of people who believed in his vision, and this will be resisted by them. Moreover, some wily guy may capitalize on this and possibly initiate legal proceedings.

He can never claim to know Mr. Speaker more than the multitude of people who voted him in 2019 and returned him in 2023. It is on record that when the PDP, a hitherto faceless and seemingly insignificant group at that time was wrestling power from the incumbent in 2019, he was not on the scene because he was then working for SDP. Him and the group he claim to have founded came into existence afterwards Mr. Speaker won his elections.

This group became successful and acceptable because it is Mr. Speaker's name tag and not he's. So what he is doing now is nothing other than destroying the very house he built, while watching the house collapse on his head. He is only undoing himself and not Mr. Speaker.

Bathiya 5G Network and EMNAMU Foundation have never operated on the same pedestal, neither have they been in any competition to outshine or even overshadow each other. One is purely a political organization while the other is a humanitarian organization. Attempting to pitch them against each other for personal gains will only be an exercise in futility.

No individual, no matter how strong or highly placed can fight government and succeed. Fighting Mr. Speaker is fighting government. And as a government employee that he is, he should know that his active participation in politics is guided and limited by law. The way he is going, he might be approaching his necking point. He should be wise enough not to jeopardize, truncate or even sacrifice his budding career at the altar of his own ego.

After fighting the APC to a standstill, PDP stalwarts in Hong LG should use their remaining strength to consolidate their success for the good of all and not to use it to fight themselves, unless if there are moles amongst them. The enemy is still lurking around and would be eager and happy to devour the spoils of your internal wars.
~ Chief (Hon) Zibite Kurwizi Welye
(Sadaukin Kola)
9/6/2024