{"id":36012,"date":"2019-11-11T05:44:38","date_gmt":"2019-11-11T04:44:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nationalwire.com.ng\/?p=36012"},"modified":"2019-11-11T05:44:38","modified_gmt":"2019-11-11T04:44:38","slug":"acd-guber-candidate-accuses-niger-gov-of-incompetence-lacking-vision","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nationalwire.com.ng\/sub\/acd-guber-candidate-accuses-niger-gov-of-incompetence-lacking-vision\/","title":{"rendered":"ACD Guber Candidate Accuses Niger Gov Of Incompetence, Lacking Vision"},"content":{"rendered":"<p dir=\"ltr\">Olabode Adaramola, Niger State<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Gubernatorial candidate of the Advance Congress of Democracy (ACD) in the 2019 election, Barr.\u00a0 Bello Bawa Bwari, has said that government and governance in Niger state, was fragile due to Governor Abubarkar Sani Bello&#8217;s incompetence, lacking vision, knowledge and political will to pilot the state to the path of development.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Barr. Bawa stated\u00a0 this over the weekend\u00a0 during a public lecture organized by a group, &#8220;The Reformation Movement&#8221;, with the theme: \u201cChallenges of Participatory Leadership and Good Governance in Niger state.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Bawa Bwari however expressed regrets that Nigerlites at the last governorship election in the state,\u00a0 did not vote for experienced, competent, visionary, knowledgeable and courageous leader who would not only exhibit justice but equity and fair play which according to him\u00a0 was very much lacking in the state, presently.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Five years of governor Abubakar Bello\u2019s administration, he said instead caused retrogression, taken the state 12 years backward,\u00a0 and blamed the situation on\u00a0 what he termed, \u2018undemocratic&#8217; zoning that ended up glorifying incompetence\u2019.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">While calling on youths to fully participate in political activities and to\u00a0 show\u00a0 concern at the mortgaging of the state for another four years intensifies, the Legal Practitioner cum- politician,\u00a0 charged\u00a0 them to look for\u00a0 a visionary leader that would meet the needs and aspirations of Nigerlites.<\/p><div data-ad-id=\"32665\" style=\"text-align:center; margin-top:0px; margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:0px; margin-right:0px;float:none;\" class=\"afw afw_ad_image afw_ad afwadid-32665  \">\r\n                                                            <div style=\"font-size:10px;text-align:center;color:#cccccc;\">Advertisement<\/div>\r\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.accessbankplc.com\" rel=\"nofollow\"><img decoding=\"async\" height=\"auto\" max-width=\"100%\" src=\"https:\/\/nationalwire.com.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/Banner-1.jpg\"><\/a>\r\n                                                                        \r\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">\u201cWe came into politics with conventional norms of beating zoning and god fatherism in order to make a difference because leadership recruitment must be looked into at that level but you can see what we get, given 8 years to a brick layer in Niger\u00a0 state\u201d, he remarks.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Also, in his remarks, the guest of honour at the event\u00a0 and former\u00a0 Presidential candidate in the 2019 general polls , Malam Ahmed Buhari commended the peaceful protests over the deplorable road conditions recently\u00a0 in Niger state and advised leaders and politicians to live up to their responsibilities.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Buhari who called for the expunging of age and gender disparity in Nigerian politics suggested that first consideration for elective positions should be a Nigerian citizen devoid of religious and regional sentiments.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Other speakers at the event, Dr. Ibrahim Abdullahi of Ibrahim Badamasi Babangida University,\u00a0 Lapai and an author, Dr. Mohammed Dzukogi,\u00a0 called for adequate representation of youths and women\u00a0 in all spheres of life and for the adoption of Vision 3: 2020\u00a0 document of former Governor Muazu Babangida Aliyu\u00a0\u00a0 for speedy development of the state.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Dzukogi, however decried that leaders who were expected to serve the electorates, the singular reason why they were voted into office have turned to themselves to\u00a0 \u2018Masters\u2019,\u00a0 hence the need to checkmate excesses of those in leadership position.<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gubernatorial candidate of the Advance Congress of Democracy (ACD) in the 2019 election, Barr.\u00a0 Bello Bawa Bwari, has said that government and governance in Niger state, was fragile due to Governor Abubarkar Sani Bello&#8217;s incompetence, lacking vision, knowledge and political will to pilot the state to the path of development.<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":36013,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[23,1593,17,624],"tags":[6392],"coauthors":[2391],"class_list":["post-36012","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","","category-business","category-metro","category-news","category-politics","tag-advance-congress-of-democracy"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v18.9 - 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