Bello Matawalle Keeps Defending Tinubu While Attacking Northern Elders
The minister of state for defence, Bello Matawalle is not going to stop defending Bola Tinubu, the president of the Federal Republic of Nigeria. After all, if his ministry can’t defend the country, he shouldn’t be helpless to defend the interest of his principal.
But his defence is also against the interests of the northern region. He has been knocking the Northern Elders Forum.
Yesterday, the matter escalated when a former member of the House of Senate, Kabiru Marafa chided Mr. Bello Matawalle for talking down and disrespecting the elders from the northern region.
The minister argued that the same elders were silent during the administration of former President Muhammadu Buhari when the country was thrown into worse economy, security and democracy.
Matawalle, a former governor of northern state of Zamfara reacted through his media aide, Deyemi Saka. The former governor said that the northern leaders were hypocritical and that they were not interested in the improvement of the lives of northern people when Buhari was in power.
The statement titled: “Which Northern Elders Is Marafa Speaking For,” said “it is highly hypocrital that many who either lost their voice or never had it in the eight years of Muhammadu Buhari’s presidency which never dignified the live of an average northerner or interested in improving their lives through purposeful and productive leadership are now blasting like a hot furnace because the present occupier of the highest office of the land is not from their region?”
“In his (Marafa) feeble attempt at his image revival, he claimed the Minister was out of order for negatively portraying the Northern elders, and ought to have listed the achievements, programmes, and policies, projects of President Bola Ahmed Tinubu in the North and the country as a whole in the first 10 months of the administration.
“It is highly hypocrital that many who either lost their voice or never had it in the eight years of Muhammadu Buhari’s presidency which never dignified the live of an average northerner or interested in improving their lives through purposeful and productive leadership are now blasting like a hot furnace because the present occupier of the highest office of the land is not from their region? For how long does the North play such primitive politics?
“It is also noteworthy to educate Senator Marafa and his co-travellers that the North alone didn’t make Asiwaju Bola Tinubu the president, and no single region can make or mar a political ambition. Our constitution made it so”, the defence minister Matawalle said.
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