Minister of State for Defence and former governor of Zamfara State, Dr. Bello Matawalle’s commitment to the Renewed Hope Agenda of the President Bola Ahmed Tinubu-led All Progressives Congress, APC administration is a threat to self-acclaimed Northern political power brokers and that accounts for the vicious campaign of calumny and vilification against his person/Office, calculated attempt and well-oiled conspiracy to pull him down at all cost, the Mayor of Urhoboland, His Excellency Eshanekpe Israel a.k.a Akpodoro has said in a recent press statement he issued Thursday in Abuja.
Mayor Akpodoro, who is also the president of the National Coalition of Niger Delta Ex-Agitators, NCNDEA, made the disclosure at the banquet organised for him to celebrate his achievements in social service to humanity, maintaining that Dr Matawalle has sufficiently demonstrated loyalty and patriotism even when such is not fashionable among some elements in the political North, who see themselves as Nigeria’s power brokers and to whose whim any President, who intends to be popular must align, and if otherwise must be pulled down.
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He further stated that Dr Matawalle’s crusade in loyalty to the current administration is a threat to those he described as “Nigeria’s born to rule” a reason he said the oligarchs vowed to pull the former Zamfara helmsman down at all cost using the willing tools from his state to discredit him to President Tinubu and his administration a development that the Urhobo-born Mayor said has rather thrust the “amiable Minister higher than they thought.”
Akpodoro further stated that the fear among that section of the northern political class is also the growing popularity of the Minister among the northern masses in particular and Nigerians across divides in general adding that there’s the notion that if the Minister survives the anti-Matawalle crusade into 2027, they may nosedive into political oblivion, which is why the arrowhead, who is a sitting governor is not relenting in ensuring that he drives home his antagonism against his predecessor and possibly deal him reputation injuries towards 2027 politics.
Akpodoro called on the President to hold on tenaciously to Matawalle, who he said is the arrowhead of the war against insurgency and banditry in the North. He described banditry as a huge enterprise that members of northern elites feast on over the years and with the non-relenting efforts of Dr Matawalle to dismantle their criminal enterprise, there must be a fight back against the pivot of such onslaught on their cash cow of which all Nigerians are aware.
“The President should make Matawalle a substantive Minister to enable him to break more grounds in the war against insurgency. He should also sack all non-performing ministers who are clogs in the wheel of progress of this administration. Many of the ministers are redundant and need to be shown the way out. Expedite action is needed to rejig the cabinet and bring in new hands to join the highflying appointees like Dr. Matawalle.
“We are aware that Dr. Matawalle is an enemy of those who see themselves as power brokers in the north, owners of Zamfara State, and more. It is public knowledge that when Matawalle assumed office as the governor of his state within his first 100 days in office, there were no incidences of banditry of any type. Before then, he brought everyone to a roundtable, and peace was birthed after the retreat he had with all stakeholders in the state.
“However, anarchists weren’t happy, their enterprise in banditry, illegal mining activities using bloodthirsty criminals to kill and maim the people was being dealt a deadly blow by a patriotic Matawalle team. Now, Matawalle’s soaring popularity instils morbid fears in them, and that’s why they are running from pillar to post and shall be in vain,” Akpodoro, who sits on the head of the Association of the Family Mayoral Crown stated.
He called on the masses of the Nigeria people to pray for the success of all who are genuinely involved in the war against banditry and insurgency as he challenged Governor Dauda Lawal to spend the security votes available to him in the war against banditry saying, security votes are not for private pockets but for peace and tranquillity in the state.
“Rather than pointing fingers deliberately in the wrong direction and dereliction in your duty as the supposed Chief security of officer your state, expend the security votes appropriately and achieve the result. Your predecessor, who was your boss in the past, deserves some respect and honour. Tackle security objectively and win the war against crimes and criminalities in the state,” Akpodoro told Governor Lawal.
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