Ahmed Lawan, Ex-Senate President, Told To Jettison Ambition For Governorship Of Yobe In 2027

Dr. Ahmed Lawan, the immediate past Senate President, has been told to abandon any ambition to become governor of Yobe State in 2027.

A group of youth under the auspices of Vanguard for Better Governance in Yobe State 2027 has stated that it is not the responsibility of Lawan’s senatorial district to present the next governor of the state.

The group said in a statement: “Against the backdrop of the call by phantom groups such as ‘The Coalition of Yobe East Progressive Youths’ led by one Dr. Yarma Goni, begging the Senator of Yobe East Senatorial District and immediate past Senate President, published in many news platforms locally and internationally for Senator (Dr) Ahmed Lawan to heed the call of duty and offer himself as a candidate for Yobe Governor in 2027.

“We, the Yobe youth of Yobe State, see this as a mischievous attempt by Dr. Yarima Goni’s political jobbers to sell a kite that will never fly in our dear state, Yobe.”

They added that: “While one may be sceptical of the news report, it is believed to be a clandestine and surreptitious move on the part of the distinguished Senator Lawan; however, the senator does not require a soothsayer or an Imam to inform him that the governorship of Yobe in 2027 is a Yobe South affair.

“Yobe Zone B lost its only governor in 2009, the late distinguished Senator Mamman Ali, who died before completing his first term. Two governors from other zones have ruled Yobe State, leaving Zone B in a state of perpetual waiting!

“The mere mention of a Yobe East person as Governor of Yobe State in 2027 smacks of brazen injustice and lopsidedness, as evidenced by the various federal employment slots allegedly coveted with the use of fake degrees, diplomas, and certificates from degree mills traced to Benin Republic, Togo, Ghana, and other fictitious places to place Yobe East people in top positions at the federal level.

“The same is true for federal projects “cornered from above” to the zone through the efforts of top zone politicians in Abuja. A painful example is the approval of a Federal University of Medical Sciences for the Gashua zone or Yobe East, in addition to a federal conventional university that is already operating in the area.

“The jaundiced socio-political distribution of federal and state projects in Yobe State has seen the trio of state universities in Damaturu, two federal universities in the Gashua Area, an airport in Damaturu, and other key projects, but nothing for Yobe Zone B, which is known for having a large enlightened population and historical relevance.

“Politicians who have served in the federal legislature for more than two decades are rarely rewarded with governorships in their states; as a few of them have done daylight robbery of political mandates of their kin even when they never contested party primaries for a failed quest for the white elephant national pole office of Mr President of Nigeria with an evidential failure.”

“If allowed, the planned strangulation of the Yobe Governorship in 2027 from Yobe Zone B will sow deep seeds of state discord. For God’s sake, Yobe East’s top politicians should look elsewhere and let Yobe Zone B breathe. Yobe East should rather rest from the self-inflicted wounds of rival President Bola Tinubu, given that northern governors have endorsed a southern candidate for the 2023 presidential elections.

The group went on to say, “The quest for Yobe East Governorship of Yobe State would be akin to the same strategy of their kith and kith who sought to succeed former President Muhammadu Buhari after an eight-year northern presidency with another strange eight years of northern presidency meant for southern Nigeria.” If it had happened, Nigeria would have been torn apart into Banana Republics.

“The Yobe East politicians appear to be recent Nigerian history students. Posterity has recorded in its annals that some of their kin at key federal tiers of government misled the immediate past President Buhari into a regime of unusual loan burden, an ill-fated currency change regime prosecuted in grand corruption, as well as the sleaze of the century in the oil and gas industry at the behest and heavy cooperation, resulting in the current travails of Nigerians and the current government.

“We are forced, therefore, to assume the affliction of dementia or hallucination on the part of the ‘Coalition of Yobe East Progressive Youths’ to dream Yobe Governorship in 2027 for their zone and clan’s man as this amounts to standing common sense on its very head, which will not stand!”