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Techfile: We’ll Be Happy If Father Mbaka’s Predictions Come To Pass – Senator Gamawa - latest news
Senator Babayo Garba Gamawa is the deputy
national chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party
(PDP). He was a deputy governor of Bauchi State. He
also represented Bauchi North in the Seventh Senate.
He spoke to newsmen in Gombe on the performance
of the All Progressives Congress (APC)-led
administration, Rev Father Ejike Mbaka’s prophesy on
Governor Ibrahim Dankwambo, return of former Vice
President Atiku Abubakar to the Peoples Democratic
Party (PDP) and efforts of the newly elected
executive of the party to reconcile aggrieved
members.
How do you intend to bring back the aggrieved
members of your party, the PDP?
We will bring the aggrieved party members back
through reconciliation, which we have started. I
believe they have their reasons for leaving the party.
There is always a window for reconciliation of
political grievances, and it is currently going on. We
will continue at various levels.
There are allegations that the convention that
produced all the new executive members of the
PDP was tailored through a purported Unity List.
Don’t you think this issue would continue to
undermine your party?
There was nothing like irregularities during the
national convention. In politics, it is normal to identify
who will take a certain position. The election was
transparent and open. Members were there,
observers were there; only those who lost the
election were making utterances that there were
irregularities.
After the convention, the party was once again
factionalised, with the emergence of ‘Fresh PDP’,
which opened an office in Abuja. Don’t you think
this would affect the party’s chances at the polls
in 2019?
That is normal in politics because there are people
who won’t be comfortable when they lose election.
No matter how much you provide the level playing
ground and prove to the world that the election was
conducted fairly and in a transparent manner, once
they are declared as losers, they will complain. We
cannot stop them from complaining, but that does not
mean the end of the party. Grievances and internal
crisis in politics are always normal. Nevertheless, we
have the machinery to contain these internal crises.
What is your take on Reverend Father Mbaka’s
endorsement of Governor Ibrahim Hassan
Dankwambo of Gombe State as the right
presidential candidate for the PDP?
The future is only known to Allah. There are people
from different faiths who make predictions;
sometimes it becomes real, sometimes it doesn’t. If
his prediction becomes a reality, the PDP will
definitely be glad to have someone like Dankwambo
as the party’s flag-bearer, considering how he
transformed Gombe State from what it was to its
present stage. Going by his record, having excelled in
his professional career to the rank of Accountant
General of the Federation and later as governor of
Gombe State, where he is in second term, he is the
right candidate. I must confess that he has the
prerequisite qualifications and curriculum to fly the
ticket of our party.
Recently, former Vice President Atiku Abubakar
returned to the PDP. How does that impact on
your party?
Atiku Abubakar served Nigeria as vice president for
two terms on the platform of the PDP, but decided to
leave as a result of internal crisis in the party.
Majority of Nigerians will agree with me that the APC
was a group formed for a particular purpose - to get
power; and they got it. However, getting the power
is entirely different from managing it. After being
there for about three years, Atiku did not see
anything positive democratically, so he decided to
come back home. His action did not come to us as a
surprise because he was among the pillars of the
party right from its formation stage.
How do you rate the present administration of
the APC, led by President Muhammadu Buhari?
Nigerians are left in the dark in certain areas. Those in
government are expected to introduce policies that
would impact positively on the lives of the common
man in the street. You cannot even compare life
during the PDP regime and now because there is
hardship; the prices of goods in the market have
skyrocketed. Things have totally changed for worse.
For instance, if you are an irrigation farmer, the price
of the machine to water your farm was N17, 000, but
now, it is N52, 000. If you run a barber’s shop, the
small power generator was sold between N9000 and
N11, 000 during PDP’s time, but it is now N35, 000.
Also, ask a motorcyclist, a motorcycle that was sold
at N80,000 during our time is now N280, 000.
Muslims were paying N750, 000 to N780, 000 for
pilgrimage to Makkah, but it is now N1.5 million.
But the APC has attributed the current hardship
to corruption and mismanagement of the
economy by the PDP.
Economic recession is not peculiar to Nigeria. And if
you go through economic books, recession is
something that comes once in a while, whether you
apply something or not, it will go. But the key issue
is: what do you apply to reduce the pains on the
citizens? The application is not there.
What plans does the PDP have to tackle these
problems when it comes to power?
There are ways to tackle recession and soften
hardship on citizens. We know that government is
not a profit-making venture but a service provider.
And a serious government is always concerned about
three fundamental things in the country. First, it
provides security for the citizens of the country and
their properties. Secondly, you develop a country by
executing projects and provide infrastructure. Thirdly,
you improve the economy. And how do you improve
the economy? Economy is improved by engaging
experts with technical know-how and giving a level
playing ground for all businessmen and women. But
now, if you ask traders of different commodities at
the market, things are difficult for both the buyers
and sellers.
In politics you don’t preempt plans before the time.
However, in the PDP we have many experienced
people. For instance, going by his discipline as a
professional accountant, Governor Dankwambo
knows how to manage finances. Apart from
Dankwambo, we have many aspirants who have
ideas on how to transform and move the country
forward.
Don’t you think many aspirants for the
presidential ticket would create a problem for
the party?
The PDP of today is concerned with the lives of
Nigerians and developmental projects in the country.
It is our intention to provide a level playing ground
for all aspirants. And a true democrat would not
complain if he lost an election conducted under a
level playing ground.
In what areas do you think the present
administration has recorded achievements?
It will be difficult for me to tell you the areas the APC
government has recorded any achievement. Honestly
speaking, I am not impressed. If you look at the
education sector, what are the achievements? When
I was in the Senate we worked on 13 bills to
establish new federal universities to reduce the
number of students roaming the streets. I was a
member of the Senate Committee on Education.
Colleges of education were also established, and
people were given opportunities to further their
education outside the country, up to PhD level.
Looking at the transport sector, what are their
achievements? I was a member of the Senate
Committee on Transport, so I can tell you that all
these rail lines were started during our time.
Remodelling of airports also started during our time.
The dualisation of Kano-Maiduguri road started during
our time. So where are the achievements they are
talking about?
The APC said they had tackled the problem of
insecurity, especially the insurgency in the North-East.
Have Boko Haram attacks stopped?
The president said they were technically defeated
Has it stopped? That is the kind of question Nigerians
should be asking. If Boko Haram has been defeated,
there will not be news about killings and bombing
anymore in the country. The fact is that there is still
insecurity. You should go to Maiduguri, Yobe and
Adamawa and ask the people living there. In fact,
another group has emerged in the Zamfara axis and
people are being killed. Almost on a daily basis, there
are incidents of kidnapping between Kano and Abuja.
But the APC has alleged that Boko Haram was
created by the PDP.
Are they not aware of what is happening in Syria,
Libya, Iraq and Yemen? Is it the PDP that is ruling in
those countries? Recently, so many people were
killed at a mosque in Egypt; was it the PDP that is
ruling there? This campaign of calumny to attach
Boko Haram with the PDP was done to attain power.
But they cannot prove that claim. We agree that it
started during our time, but there were different
types of insurgencies in the past, like the Maitatsine
during President Shehu Shagari’s time. They
deliberately attached it to the PDP to deceive
Nigerians and have their way.
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