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Ex-SGF Boss: It’s a Mark Of Honor You Raced Well to The Finish Line

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….Thank you for ending well in service to humanity

By Tom Garba

Instinct, conscience, and morals have asked me to search for a good Man who can be trusted at all times and be a faithful, loyal, and honest steward that has a touch of credibility. I searched all through, and I have found one in existence. I found this silent achiever in the history of Nigeria, a country with seemingly good leaders in the anals of leadership.

Boss Mustapha Gidahyel, the former Secretary to the Government of the Federation (SGF) was the Man I found to be a perfect example of a good leader. The formation of APC from other political parties and merging as a party in 2014 was the time Mustapha became the egg York of the party system and remain so to date.

Boss’ first appointment by President Muhammadu Buhari was given the Director General of the National Inland Waterways Authority (NIWA) office. He held this position for about two years, in the first term of President Muhammadu Buhari.

In his second year in office, destiny beckoned on him when there was an opening of who will be the next SGF to replace Engr Babachir David Lawal. Boss was tipped and today is history the ever-tall and standing man ended well his tenure with his Boss, President Muhammadu Buhari.

I have found Boss a plaudits politician who had steady steps and straddled
Passing through the heated crucible
And excruciating journey if I can recall his records since 1992. Yet he can be said of him as one Nigeria that is reliable at all times.

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In his Journey with President Muhammadu Buhari as SGF he was Stand Upper and brevity by giving the best. A confident Buhari reposed him and gave him many committees of national interest to handle. Home and away, any time any moment, Boss has proven he is a mettle and maestro of giving good results in any assignment he was given by the president.

Sir, you have raced to the clear finish line
In the labyrinth of unsteady political miasma without a doubt. You are a good Man, a dependable Man who cannot chicken out for whatever reason against your Boss. To us your supporters it is a thumbs up because you have all made us proud by racing to the finish line untarnished.

You are an avid follower of Buhari’s leadership principles. Yes, you redoubled the confidence he reposed on you, you recreated a new version of the sincerity you are known for, you laced the office of SGF with another model of hard work you being testified of and nobody will ever question your loyalty to Buhari, your Master.

To me Sir, you are a good runner. You successfully ran to the finishing line of President Muhammadu Buhari’s administration and I have found this Bible passage as a description of your loyalty to the past administration:

“You have fought the good fight, you have finished the race, you have kept the faith. Henceforth there is laid up for you a crown of righteousness, which the Lord, the righteous judge, shall give you at that day — 2 Timothy 4:8

I’m one of your ardent loyalists, over the years I saw how you persevered through a renewed Faith in Buhari’s regime of All Progressives Congress and continued facing daunting and wanton challenges riding on administrative crooked roads

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Sir, show yourself to be a good steward whose stewardship is tasted and trusted in touching the line of a successful government. You served with an uttermost display of Sincerity, and honesty, hardworking, and in a more refined way, you approached the duties of the SGF office on a clean slide.

You did all these with dexterity handling the clerical affairs of the nation. You gave Nigerians greater hope that the nation is capable of producing good leaders whose mission is for the total and corporate good of all people. Your service to the nation reminds and give assurance to the young generation that they still have leaders with selfless agenda who are not working within the claws of nepotism to enrich themselves and their generation.

I Thank you former President Buhari for your insight and foresight and wisdom to decide on the SGF’s office to a Man in Boss. An office that many interest groups and individuals wanted otherwise because of the large opportunities attached to it, the decision you have taken in favor of Boss is indeed commendable and applauded you as a good leader of all times. Mr former President Sir, I can’t thank you enough for this.

Thank you Mr Boss Mustapha for making us proud by serving you our dear nation. Thank you Sir for allowing me to closely work with you as one of your media supporters you so much.

You built in my threads and marks of good leadership. They remain scars of impaction and transformation of the Man-God desires him to be.

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Congratulations on a good race you ran in the interest of our dear nation. Thank you once again for just doing that for all. Handing over an SGF office that is structured with a revamped system of the Federal Government.

Tom Garba (B.Tech, MA. FIMC, FBDFM, SPSP). Is a Journalist, a political analyst, and an opinion writer. He writes from Yola-Adamawa State. He can be reached through these means:
tomgarba7@gmail.com
08172570959

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Sokoto APC Gives Governor Aliyu’s Scorecard, Calls Him A Worthy Ambassador 

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By ANKELI EMMANUEL, Sokoto

The Sokoto State chapter of the All Progressive Congress (APC) Monday gave a scorecard of governor Ahmed Aliyu’s performance thus far.

Addressing newsmen at the party’s Secretariat, the state chairman of APC, Alhaji Isa Sadiq Achida said they have no regrets marketing the governor as his achievements have vindicated Senator Wamakko and the APC in Sokoto

“”Many people voted for Ahmed Aliyu Sokoto with the benefit of the doubt. Many others voted him based on the credentials of his political mentor and the father of Sokoto politics, Distinguished Senator Aliyu Magatakarda Wamakko, Sarkin Yamman Sokoto, Sarkin Yakin Sokoto””, the APC chairman noted.

The chairman however added that, he feels proud that Sokoto’s governor has turned out to be an excellent choice who has proven all critics wrong.

While reeling out the governor’s achievements in the areas of road constructions, health, economy, water supply, education, security, housing, human capital development and empowerment as well as electricity, the state APC chairman said, the governor Ahmed Aliyu’s led administration has performed better in less than two year compared to the entire 8 years of his predecessor, Aminu Waziri Tambuwal.

Giving a roll down of the numerous completed and ongoing road as well as township beautification projects executed by governor Ahmed Aliyu, the state APC chairman added that, while his predecessor, Aminu Waziri Tambuwal sold off all government houses and can not account for the money, governor Ahmed Aliyu in less than two years is
building a total of 1136 houses.

“This is made up of 500 at Gidan Salanke, 500 at Wajake, Wamakko Local Government and the 136 housing units purchased from the Federal Housing Authority”‘”.

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Talking on security,  Isa Sadiq Achida admitted that despite  challenges affecting some local government areas, particularly in the Eastern Senatorial District, the governor Ahmad Aliyu’s administration is taken decisive steps to combat banditry and enhance public safety.

Continuing, Sadiq Achida mentioned some of the efforts in that regards to include, “‘Strengthening Security Operations with the procurement and distribution of over 140 patrol vehicles to security agencies to boost their mobility and response capabilities, establishment and equipping of the Community Guards Corps with essential operational tools and logistics to strengthen local security networks.

“”Also on the security challanges, the governor is taken proactive measures to help mitigate the effect of spillover external threats from neighboring states and the Republic of Niger” The APC chairman said.

 

 

 

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Rivers Govt tells NBA to refund N300m confab hosting rights

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The Rivers State Sole Administrator, Vice Admiral Ibok-Ete Ibas (retd.), has replied to the Nigerian Bar Association regarding the reason for relocating its Annual General Conference from Port Harcourt to Enugu State.

Ibas faulted the reason cited by the NBA, describing it as misleading and uncharitable.

The statement partly reads, “While we respect the NBA’s right to choose its conference venues, we find it curious that the association—despite its “principled position”— didn’t address the refund of the N300 million already paid by the Rivers State Government for the hosting rights of the 2025 conference.

“If the NBA truly stands on principle, it should demonstrate the same integrity by promptly returning these funds rather than benefiting from a state it now publicly discredits.”

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Tinubu urged to ignore calls for state of emergency in Zamfara

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An interest group, Patriots for the Advancement of Peace and Social Development (PAPSD), has urged President Bola Tinubu and lovers of democracy to ignore calls for declaration of a state of emergency in Zamfara.

The PAPSD Executive Director, Dr Sani Shinkafi, made the call in a statement issued on Monday in Abuja.

The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that Shinkafi was also the Patron of Bola Tinubu/Kashim Shettima Presidential Campaign Council in 2023.

He described the call by some groups which he referred as faceless as an agenda to distract Gov. Dauda Lawal from his Rescue Mission and destabilise the state.

The executive director said that the ‘reactionary forces’, blinded by parochial interests, had demonstrated ignorance of Nigerian constitution on the provisions for declaration of state of emergency in a state.

According to him, Zamfara does not fall in any of the constitutional provisions for removing the governor or declaring a state of emergency.

He urged politicians in the state to play by the rules, uphold democratic values, ideals and ethics, and eschew politics of bitterness capable of impeding the gains of Nigeria’s hard earned democracy.

Shinkafi noted that the army and other security agencies, supported by the governor, had fought armed banditry and had significantly improved security, public safety and order in Zamfara.

He noted that the improved security had paved the way for vigorous economic activities, social services and infrastructural development, all combined to provide dividends of democracy to citizens.

“This also includes the payment of ₦70,000 national minimum wage to civil servants and a promise to address the grey areas in the implementation of the national minimum wage to senior civil servants,’’ he said.

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The executive director said if the intention of the groups and their sponsors was to distract the governor, they had failed woefully.

He urged all lovers of good governance in Zamfara to set aside petty politics and join hands with Lawal to transform the state and make it great again.

“The interest of the state supersedes individuals’ political ambitions.

“It is not yet time for partisan politics for the 2027 general elections.

“Everybody should calm down and contribute to building a better Zamfara State. It is time for patriotism, not antagonism,” he said. (NAN)

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