If your adage while inside power house was the Orwellian cliche that all animals are not equal, it directly infers that once you are dropped from the giddying height you become delusional in your thoughts and actions. This crushing crumble also sips into the bones of your blind neophytes and diurnalist entrepreneurs suffering from delusional grandeur of power.
The foregoing is the summary of the truncated life and power chances of Sen. Aliyu Magatakarda Wamakko, his dumb-assed minions and a rudderless propaganda outfit which financial legitimacy is of questionable and bloodletting Salafi background.
They are not the only forces arrayed against the divinely ordained mercurial and phenomenal rise of Gov. Aminu Waziri Tambuwal (AWT) in the democratic and political firmament of Nigeria. From the day he walked calmly into the hallowed chamber of the House of Representatives, against the scheming of his detractors, an incident erroneously adumbrated as his scaling the gates, to the day the Supreme Court affirmed his status as the governor of Sokoto state, the ant-infested cult of the Orwellian ‘animalistic’ fellowship and their cohorts are yet to come to terms with the hard fact that they are no longer in charge and would not be for the next three years.
They still want to enjoy the prebends of power- big cars, generators, fast cash and return tickets when they sojourn to engage in bestial trysts. They are not happy that they can no longer speed along the boulevards and labyrinths of Sokoto towns and communities throwing out wads of naira notes to distressed citizens, some of who were maimed or murdered in the ensuing melee. They are worried that they can no longer dispense with favour, or insult the sensibilities of Sokoto people at will and get away with it. Their era of animal sexual escapades and economic brigandage are now over so much so that an Islamic scholar of impeccable credentials, Sheikh Bello Yabo reiterated after the apex court ruling in favor of AWT that: “the gift of paradise would have been the sweetest news to me apart from the decision of the Supreme Court re-affirming the election of Gov. Tambuwal.”
However, like the devil, who despite being disgracefully cast out of heaven along with his bellicose lieutenants, called on his followers not to be weak, whether ‘doing’ or ‘suffering’, Wamakko too is not resting on his oars. He is unrelenting in his ill-motivated mobilization of his fellow cult members to nip in the bud the democratic essentials of the incumbent Sokoto state governor.
Part of the evil ministrations is the ongoing criticism of the collective decision of the state government to take a loan of N65.7 billion to implement worthy projects that would be useful to the people. Instead of factually portraying what the government spelt out to accomplish, a newspaper led the negative onslaught against the governor by choosing to promote the least costly of all the items listed by the state government. Its headline was maliciously: ‘Sokoto Govt Wants N65.7 b Loan to Buy Cars for Judiciary Staff, Others.’ It claimed that it took the story from the bulletin of the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN). But upon closer checks it became clear that NAN didn’t cast its headline in such a mischievous way. After lots of calls and persistent bashing on the social media, the paper changed its headline to what it should have been ab initio: ‘Sokoto Wants N65.7 b Loan for Projects.’
Devilishly energized to wreck havoc, one of Wamakko’s boys hid his identity and launch a dubious attack on AWT in the same credibility deficient newspaper. Apart from his adherence to his cultic disposition of remaining faceless, the dude who calls himself Mansur Ibrahim Rigasa, exposed his incoherence in the badly written piece. Apparently, his nightmare is that AWT is aspiring to be president in 2023. When has such aspiration become a crime or peccadillo to be castigated for? Did AWT ever took loans to run for a position at the House of Representatives? Did he take a loan to seek for governorship when Wamakko thought that he was a superior Sokoto animal? Which financial institution bank-rolled his bid for second tenure, a bid that remained rancorously contentious for months unend? Did he take loans to satisfy the late night moans of Wamakko for diesel when PHCN took light and he was left in darkness? Who guaranteed the ‘loans’ AWT took to ensure that Wamakko rode in exotic cars from 2015-2019?
Now that the chips are down, has it become an offence for AWT to seek for loans to lift the people of Sokoto up? Is Wamakko envious that AWT will take a loan of N550 million to procure 200 generators to provide portable water to Sokoto peasants? Is his darling paper disturbed that a N10 billion loan would be sourced to improve education standard in the state? When the federal government jerked up Hajj fare and cut short the dreams of hundreds of impoverished northern Muslim pilgrims, did Wamakko’s newspaper react? Who did Wamakko shout out to when he was cruising in choice luxurious cars at the expense of Sokoto tax payers, who have been for ages denied access to good justice system? In an era when the crave for equity and good conscience are the basic minimum that should be accorded to citizens, is it still fashionable to parade a hungry judiciary system that subsists by taking bribe? Should courtrooms continue to look like dungeons?
If taking loans to execute projects is a global exception and an economic rule then it would not have been fashionable for about 190 countries to garner a debt profile the IMF recently put at $184 trillion as at May 2018. Despite the ferocious snarl of snow, Tokyo, declares the IMF, is the third most indebted capital in the world. Number one on the list of the Singaporean statistics is the United States with an external debt profile of $1.96 trillion as at 2017. Was all of that procured to shore up the war chest of President Donald Trump or any other presidential hopeful in the democratic party in the US?
Isn’t it bunkum what the faceless and timid Rigachikun is referring to regarding AWT taking loans to contest for president? Are there no gatekeepers in Wamakko’s sheet, the likes of who cast headlines to smear AWT and his administration, to fact check the incoherence of Rigasa?
Although AWT do not have the energy of those who have lost earthly paradise and seek to reclaim it by destroying all others, certainly he has the resolve, as a democratically elected governor to seek the best for his people who stood by him day and night while waiting for the legitimization of their mandate. The government may seek loan even from the moon if need be. The incoherence of the incoherents shall not draw it back. And, if the sun rises, a Hausa proverb submits, the palm cannot cover its rays.