Tambuwal's tantrums

• Published date: 03 February 2023
• Publication title: Nigeria - The Nation

It would appear that the reality of an impending defeat for his party, the People's Democratic Party, PDP, in the forthcoming gubernatorial election in Sokoto State, must be taking a serious toll on Governor Aminu Waziri Tambuwal who appeared pale and frail in a viral video where he was addressing some selected party stalwarts recently. Else, how does one explain his outburst, blaming and threatening to deal with the opposition All Progressives Congress, APC, for everything wrong with the state?

While addressing the selected leaders of the PDP in Sokoto, Tambuwal, threatened to deal with the APC members for his own inability to curb insecurity, or provide the needed succour to those that have been affected by it in his state. He was fuming that some opposition politicians are trying to undermine the relative peace his administration has been able to achieve with regards to banditry and area boys activities while in reality, banditry is daily escalating in most parts of Isa, Sabon Birni, Gwadabawa, Illela and Binji local government areas of the state. Without explaining what he had done with the security votes, running to billions within the last seven and half years of his administration, he instead, accused the opposition of being responsible for all his problems. The governor, even warned that he will use the law to deal with anyone who undermines his authority no matter how highly placed the person is while in reality, he is his own enemy because in the last seven and half years of his misrule. He has lost grip of the grassroots as a result of his policy of running an administration of family and friends. In what may be regarded as an indirect admission of failure and running one of the worst administrations in the history of Sokoto State, Tambuwal has accused the APC-led federal government of neglecting the state in areas of project distribution, and the lack of empathy over the loss of lives and destruction of property to incessant banditry in the state claiming that the opposition APC had never visited any IDP camp in the state to either sympathize with the victims or send relief materials.

It is a known fact in Sokoto and beyond that the APC leader in Sokoto State, Senator Aliyu Magatakarda Wamakko has always been the first politician and personality in the state to visit, sympathize and donate graciously to victims of banditry attacks and also ensure that relief materials such as grains, blankets, roofing sheets, drugs and cash running into millions...