As a concerned citizen of Bauchi State, I was dismayed at Alhaji isa Yuguda’s responses during the interview.

Such responses from such a respected personality are what continue to cage our (youths’) future within the strong bars of despondency, because his responses are full of contradictions, if not lies.

On the genesis of ‘hatred’, the former minister claimed it to have started right from childhood. It may be so, but the contradiction here is the answer to these questions: How did the family; the wives and the children become one, despite the long term ‘hatred’? Why did Governor Muazu nominate him for the ministerial appointment while he is not the most qualified candidate in the state? What the ex-minister said, to any rational human being, defies logic.

On the issue of free movement and informants, Isa said people keep a tab on his movements. Well, to me, only the those within his circle can be divulging such information, the way he portrayed it. And if those in his circle can keep a tab on him, then, I don’t think the ex-minister is what he is supposed to be. Because even external spies can defect, if he is a nice fellow. Moreover, with due respect, Isa should bury his face in shame if he cannot fish out informants in his house with all that his ‘credentials’.

On the issue of gubernatorial ambition, who is stopping him? Obviously no body because even the Muazu ‘die-hards’ are not talking about you, you are not a threat to them since he does not intend to go for third term. The only thing people like me see is that you are not a true democrat, because the people of Bauchi State believe in power shift, they agree that the next governor should come from Katagum Zone. So, why the noise? Two points of correction are: 1) Kaulaha Aliyu is not aspiring for any political office. The posters you see are an indication of his acceptability in the state as a man of the people. He has mobs of supporters all over the state. They only carry posters of their political mentor. If there is any proof you have on Kaulaha contesting for any office, I challenge the former minister to say it out.

2) On the issue of Nadada Umar, it is the people of Bauchi State that are yearning for his service, they are only calling Muazu’s attention to their choice, there are various groups doing that even Nadada does not know all the groups. If the ex-minister wants such agitations, let him be what is supposed to be, may the people will withdraw the idea of the power shift. On the issue of loyalty, I thought Isa knew that loyalty to any government in power means loyalty to the nation, which every good citizen pledges to Nigeria. In my interpretation, if one is not loyal to a government, he can only be a threat to the security of that government.

The former minister said Muazu needs praises for what he is doing. The correction here is, if there is anything Muazu needs, is appreciation, which he deserves for a job well done. If he is given public fund to serve the public and he does it well, the public should appreciate that because it proves accountability, dedication and transparency, which if all the states of the federation can do, we can then have a nation of Chief Obasanjo’s dream, a nation of our forefathers’ dream.

When Isa was the Minister of aviation, public funds were given to him to serve the public, what did he do? If was ready to serve the public, he would have grounded a lot of aircrafts that are crashing now, killing good citizens of Nigeria. To me Isa, with due respect, should consider himself a failure.

The people of Bauchi State know that you have credentials. But can you count those that are ahead of you in the state? Being the governor of CBN is not a pride, but what the governor does to CBN and, by extension, the financial sector. Even if Governor Muazu has not been in any school, not to talk of work, he has delivered. Go to other states and see, then compare Bauchi. People like me that have not gone to school feel intimidated and we are the governed, we cast our votes, and remember that nobody likes being intimidated.

Coming to the issue of Mr Presidents intervention, why do you want to praise Mr President, is he not performing his duties as a father of the nation? Or is it sycophancy, so that the Mr. President would say Isa is a loyalist? Or is the ex-minister using the medium to tell the world that he has learnt from Mr President? If it is so, who hasn’t? The Editor of this paper should have been the first to use it to announce the lessons he learnt from Mr President.

On the issue of psychological or material loss, If I were Isa, I would really be disturbed because my supporters were arrested and detained innocently. The only way I can have peace of mind is to bail them out and make sure they are exonerated. But only if I am sure they were innocently arrested and detained.

Otherwise I am being inhuman, meaning I don’t care about those that care about me.

Nasiru Bappah Muhammad.