Covener of The Alternative and former governorship candidate in Ogun State, Segun Showunmi, has commended Bauchi State Governor, Bala Mohammed, for executing massive developmental projects for the good of the people of his state.
The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) chieftain further said the governor has replicated what the late Nigerian Prime Minister, Abubakar Tafawa Balewa, did for the entire nation in the state.
Segun made the commendation while interacting with journalists in Bauchi yesterday shortly after having a town hall meeting with stakeholders under his Alternative Movement, saying that he was surprised with what he had seen since he entered the state.
Showunmi said: “He added that, “Nigerians need to know what he is doing, these are the kind of people we need to lead the country.
He is not a one sided person, I have seen roads in areas described as Christian dominated.”
He added that, “I appreciate him for what he is doing, he has taken it upon himself to replicate what late Abubakar Tafawa Balewa did for the entire nation. He is really doing great.”
Showunmi noted that as much as he and the governor have known each other for a long time as PDP members, he has never visited the state with the eye of searching for any value.
“But since we started this Alternative Movement, I’ve started looking at all of them from the eye of value. And, you know what I see, I cannot even imagine that Governor Bala Mohammed has done such phenomenal work here.”
“I went to his Conference Room where he has his Executive Council meeting, yesterday. They just showed me just to look like a tourist reload. I was so excited. Ah, ah, in this Nigeria, no such in any Governor’s Office in this country. I went to some of the roads, I saw locations where, for more than 40 years since 1976, nobody has done anything.”
He further said: “I was at the Palace of the Emir of Bauchi to pay homage, I was just looking at him as he was speaking. I’m not a government person but he spoke well about the Governor.”
“He said he had carried the traditional institution along. He said, remember the last time you came to my Palace, it was not like this, he has renovated all our palaces. He takes our opinion in governance and he’s doing well here,” he added.
“That was not what I went for, but that is really why we came, to find leaders among us, who we will hear that are good. And then we begin to look at them and I’m sure it will be the same all over. Nobody should look down on us,” he concluded.
