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Hon. Tukur was two-term member of Bauchi State House of Assembly
By Mohammed Kabir Garba, Bauchi
As Nigeria prepares for political campaigns to start precisely on September 28, 2022, some prominent politicians have spoken against the backdrop of politics of fair play and free of rancour ahead of the general elections in 2023.
Speaking exclusively with a freelance journalist in Bauchi, one of such bigwigs, Honourable Aminu Tukur, two-time member of Bauchi State House of Assembly, representing Bula/Lere constituency and a card-carrying member of the All Progressive Congress (APC), said that Bauchi State and Nigeria as a whole should shy away from ethnic politics if there is going to be sanity in the political arena.
“Severally we had the opportunity of listening to universally accepted orators in terms of political analyses of situations in Africa and most especially in Nigeria. Now coming to dwell completely on issues bedeviling the Nigeria situation and in particular Bauchi state one would have something to lament about.”
He spoke on some sinister incident that occurred when the Minister of Humanitarian Affairs, Disaster Management and Social Development, Hajiya Sadiya Umar Farouq was at an event on official assignment and was attacked by some hoodlums. Such incident does not speak good of conducive political activities.
Hon. Tukur also spoke on the way out of such dangerous anomalies. He said that it’s left to the political actors to either accept defeat with a gentleman disposition and move on and for the winner to congratulate the defeated candidate.
“There is an adage that says he who should go to equity should go with a clean hand. Now, have you ever seen or heard in Nigeria that a defeated person has come out openly to accept that he’s been defeated and surrender especially in lucrative positions like the President, Governors etc? It’s a very difficult thing to do”, he said.
He added that most of our elections end in court which makes it rather worse.
He equally he came across some statistics to justify Nigeria’s lapses in playing politics as it ought to be.
“I came across some documents by the United Nations Humanitarian Development index in 1989 or thereabout, in all these, it shows that the political awareness of an average person in Niger Republic either living in the remotest part of the country is 35 years ahead than that of a Nigerian living in urban cities like Abuja or Lagos. That means we are far behind in terms of understanding political consciousness.”
Hon. Tukur however advised the present government in Bauchi state to play politics of maturity if it wants to represent the people of the state in the next four years.
